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Systems Perspectives on Renewable Power 2014
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Electricity, the lifeblood of industrial society, powers an increasing variety of humanactivities. In spite of measures to improve energy efficiency, global demand forelectrical power will likely continue to grow in decades to come. While electricityin itself is a clean and convenient energy carrier, its production is laden withenvironmental, social and political problems. This calls for a radical transformationfrom fossil and nuclear to renewable sources of electrical power.A transition to renewables, however, is not without problems. Numerous questionsdemand an answer: if there is enough renewable energy to replace all non-renewables;what environmental impact that may be caused by the production and useof novel types of power plants; how supply and demand of electricity is balancedwhen large amount of intermittent power is connected to the grid; how the politicalpower of the incumbent industry is balanced by other forces; and what is requiredfrom policy makers and investors to build large new systems.There is not one final answer to questions like these. However, studying renewablepower from different systems perspectives can help out in killing myths, clarifyingcontroversies, deepening understanding and formulating new and more precisequestions. The sixteen chapters of Systems Perspectives on Renewable Power2014 address different topics related to the profound question whether electricity,and eventually all energy, can and should be supplied from renewable energysources, and what is required to realise such a future.Systems Perspectives on Renewable Power is an evolving ebook with annualupdates. You may also want to read Systems Perspectives on Electromobility andSystems Perspectives on Biorefineries.
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