Repowering communities : small-scale solutions for large-scale energy problems / / Prashant Vaze and Stephen Tindale
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| Autore: |
Vaze Prashant
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| Titolo: |
Repowering communities : small-scale solutions for large-scale energy problems / / Prashant Vaze and Stephen Tindale
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Earthscan, , 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (223 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.79 |
| Soggetto topico: | Energy policy |
| Energy development | |
| Power resources | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
TindaleStephen
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| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Repowering Communities; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures, boxes and tables; Foreword by David Miller; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms and abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 2 The Need for Transformation; 3 Why Existing Energy Companies Aren't Delivering - Can a Shark Go Vegan?; 4 Why Governments Aren't Delivering; 5 Delivering Low-Carbon Communities; 6 Financing Community Energy Initiatives; 7 Increasing the Price of Energy and Helping Renewables Without Punishing the Poor; 8 Nudging and Shoving People and Business into Changing their Behaviour |
| 9 Bringing This Together - A New Ecology of Energy MarketsGlossary; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Energy policy is at a crossroads. Attempts to meet targets for carbon emissions, energy security and affordable energy for vulnerable households are all on a trajectory to failure. Aggressive ambitions to roll out huge off-shore wind, nuclear and clean coal plants are proposed, but without any clear plans on how funds will be mobilized, or transmission and distribution infrastructure developed. In this book Prashant Vaze and Stephen Tindale ask politicians and regulators to consider a different path. Using abundant examples of small scale local solutions Repowering Communities</E |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Repowering communities |
| ISBN: | 1-84971-267-0 |
| 1-315-87065-7 | |
| 1-317-97333-X | |
| 1-317-97334-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453396403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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