Wind energy in the 21st century : economics, policy, technology, and the changing electricity industry /
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Foreword
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Wind Energy Resource Potential
- Worldwide installed capacity
- Energy in the wind
- Wind resource assessment and data limitations
- Global wind resource potential
- Future medium- to long-term implementation of wind power
- Large-scale implementation of wind power
- 3 Wind Turbine Technology and Industry
- A brief history of wind power utilisation
- Extracting energy from the wind
- Modern wind turbine technology
- Principal components of the wind turbine
- Technological trends
- Wind energy industry
- Wind energy's interactions with the electricity grid
- 4 Economics of Wind Energy
- Capital cost and efficiency trends
- Operation and maintenance costs
- Overall cost-effectiveness
- Offshore wind turbines
- Comparison with the cost of conventional power
- Economics of hybrid and stand-alone wind energy systems
- Economics of small-scale irrigation pumping
- 5 Finance, Competition and Power Markets
- Economic vs. financial viability
- Financing wind power projects
- Financing considerations in emerging economies
- Competition and power markets
- 6 Environmental Considerations
- What is the environment worth?
- Damage costs
- Environmental damage costs of electricity generation
- Social considerations
- 7 Wind Energy Policy
- Power purchase agreements
- Investment incentives
- Production incentives
- Renewables set-aside
- Externality adders
- Environmental taxation
- Research, development and demonstration grants
- Government-assisted business development
- Green marketing
- Tradable CO[sub(2)] credits
- Other policy mechanisms
- Country experiences with grid-connected renewable energy policy
- America
- UK
- The Netherlands
- Denmark
- Germany
- India
- Sweden
- 8 Summary and Conclusions
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- L
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Last Page.