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Agile Energy Systems
Global Distributed On-Site and Central Grid Power
Provides a new solution to the structure of electricity provision made possible by new energy technologies
Woodrow W. Clark II (Author)
9780081017609, Elsevier Science
Paperback / softback, published 26 July 2017
328 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 2.1 cm, 0.54 kg
Agile Energy Systems: Global Distributed On-Site and Central Grid Power, Second Edition, offers new solutions to the structure of electricity provision made possible by new energy technologies. The book begins by showing how five precipitating forces led to the deregulation debacle in California, including major technological changes and commercialization, regulatory needs mismatched to societal adjustments, inadequate and flawed economic models, a lack of vision, goals, and planning that lead to energy failures, and questionable finance and lack of economic development. The second half of the book examines the civic market paradigm for new economic models and how to plan for complexity using California as an example of how the problem of centralized power systems can be seen in the worst drought that California has ever seen.
1. The End of the Fossil Fuel Industrial Revolution: the case of California in the USA 2. The Green Industrial Revolution (GIR) is here today 3. The Global Context for Changes in the Energy System 4. BRIC and other developed nations 5. Developing Nations: Africa, Latin America and Island Nations 6. Technologies, Changes and Impacts: From a vertically integrated to dispersed energy systems 7. Agile Energy Systems: integrated GIR technologies into infrastructures 8. The Next Economics: Civic Capitalism 9. Complex Infrastructures: the role of government in planning for agile energy systems 10. Conclusions: implementing the smart green development revolution through agile energy systems Appendices: Agile Energy System Cases: Green technologies for power on-site and central grid The Case of China
Subject Areas: Energy technology & engineering [TH], Environmental policy & protocols [RND], Energy & natural resources law [LNCR], Energy industries & utilities [KNB]
