Generating electricity in a carbon-constrained world /

The electric power sector is what keeps modern economies going, and historically, fossil fuels provided the bulk of the energy need to generate electricity, with coal a dominant player in many parts of the world. Now with growing concerns about global climate change, this historical dependence on fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Sioshansi, Fereidoon P.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Academic, 2009.
Subjects:	Energy industries. Electric power production > Environmental aspects. Renewable energy sources. Energy industries > Case studies. Electric power production > Environmental aspects > Case studies. Renewable energy sources > Case studies. Case studies Case studies.
Online Access:	CONNECT

Table of Contents:

Foreword
Preface
Introduction: The problem in context
Part One:Short Term Options
Chapter 1:Carbon & climate change
Chapter 2:Coal
Chapter 3:Clean Coal and Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technology
Chapter 4: Emission trading
Chapter 5:Creating markets for tradable permits in the emerging carbon era
Chapter 6:Global Action on Climate Change
Chapter 7:The Impossibility of Staunching World CO₂ Emissions
Part Two: Renewable Energy Solutions
Chapter 8 & 9:Energy efficiency
Chapter 10:Nuclear Energy
Chapter 11:Wind power
Chapter 12: Solar power
Chapter 13:Hydro-electric
Chapter 14:Geothermal energy
Chapter 15:Biofuels
Chapter 16: Per capita carbon allowances
Part Three: Case studies
Chapter 16: The economics, politics and mechanics of meeting California?s carbon mandate
Chapter 17:ISOs, regional electricity markets, and greenhouse gas policy
Chapter 18:Life after coal?
Chapter 19:British electricity industry?s carbon challenge
Chapter 20 & 21: China
Chapter 22:Beyond Fossil Fuels.

Generating electricity in a carbon-constrained world /

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