Renewable Energy Strategies for Europe: Electricity Systems and Primary Electricity Sources - Softcover

Grubb, Michael; Vigotti, Roberto

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853832847 ISBN 13: 9781853832840

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

Published in association with The Royal Institute of International Affairs Technologies for generating electricity from primary renewable sources hydro, wind, solar cells, wave and tidal power - are developing rapidly. So too are Europes electricity systems, which are undergoing momentous change as governments and the European Commission move to introduce competition and new environmental policies into the sector. This study examines the implications of these combined trends for the role of primary renewables in European electricity. In the centralized electricity monopolies of old, the small unit scale and the dispersed, fluctuating nature of most of these sources were serious drawbacks. But in the emerging liberalized electricity systems, this book argues, renewables will be able to develop into major commercial industries based on their special characteristics and continuing technical improvements. With appropriate complementary policies, the regulatory liberalization now sweeping European electricity could lead to renewable sources contributing as much as half of Europes electricity within three decades.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1853832847
• ISBN 13: 9781853832840
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256