Proceedings of the International Conference in Sustainability in Energy and Buildings SEB09. .

Offers a clean energy technology market overview for India and China with two primary objectives: to analyse the clean energy markets in India and China, and to identify opportunities for trade and investment through 2020. This title features an edited, excerpted and augmented edition of two US Department of Commerce publications.

Rising energy prices and concern over greenhouse gas emissions have focused congressional attention on energy alternatives, including wind power. This book describes utility-scale wind power issues in the US as well as background on wind energy, wind resources and technology, industry composition and trends, wind power economics and policy issues.

Looks at US biobased products and their market potential. This study is based upon data and assumptions as of 2006 which were used to identify the market potential for biobased products - their production volumes and applications - through the year 2025.

Identifies the major forces that have pushed clean tech from back-to-the-earth utopian dream to its revolution among the inner circles of corporate boardrooms, on Wall Street trading floors, and in government offices around the globe. This book highlights major clean-tech sectors - solar energy, wind power, and biofuels and biomaterials.

Focuses on electricity generated from renewable energy resources, delivered through the grid and generated on-site. This book provides research for organisations that have decided to buy green power but want help in figuring out how to do it, as well as for organisations that are considering the merits of buying green power.

Green sheds new light on the gamut of issues associated with renewable energy, a topic whose importance increases exponentially with every temperature record-setting year. It covers the misinformation and confusion over global warming, and demonstrates the degree to which renewable energy can be part of the solution.

Provides an introduction to the economic, social, environmental and policy issues raised by systems of energy use, as well as describing their key physical and engineering features. This work is intended for specialists and non-specialists who wish to improve their understanding of these issues.

Addresses various prospects for the adoption of renewable energy in the oil-poor Middle East (Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon and Jordan). This book reviews renewable energy policy and practices in the Jordan Basin. It considers options for greening energy use, including promising pilot projects in North Africa.

Suitable for those trying to keep up with the extremely rapid developments in the biodiesel industry, this second edition concludes with views on where the industry is headed in the years to come from some of its key players. It also explores the increasingly controversial issues of deforestation and food versus fuel, as well as GMO crops.

Addresses various prospects for the adoption of renewable energy in the oil poor Middle East (Israel, the Palestinian Territories, Lebanon and Jordan). This book reviews renewable energy policy and practices in the Jordan Basin. It considers options for greening energy use, including promising pilot projects in North Africa.

Can renewable energy provide reliable power? Will it need extensive backup? This book examines the significance of the issue of variability of renewable electricity supplies, and presents technical and operational solutions to the problem of reconciling the differing patterns of supply and demand.

A sourcebook on the subject of alternative energy. It offers an introduction to alternative and renewable energy with focus on energy development, co-processing, distributed generation, virtual power plant, country-wise electricity production from renewable sources, and related case studies.

Argues on the basis of standard business and economic forecasting models that solar energy can become the best and cheapest choice for most electricity and energy applications. This book outlines the path by which the transition to solar technology and sustainable energy practices can occur.

Going green is both a corporate advantage and an opportunity for humanity to enable change. The four pillars of green energy are green power, green fuels and transport, green buildings and green IT. This handbook provides an introductory overview of green energy as a subject area.

Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate.

Addresses the rapid developments in the field of solar resource knowledge as a reflection of growing needs of management of renewable energy resources. The approaches exploit geographical information systems, integrates spatial data and methods, and outline directions for decision-making and management of distributed energy systems.

It is widely assumed that our consumer society can move from using fossil fuels to using renewable energy sources while maintaining the high levels of energy use to which we have become accustomed. This book details the reasons why this almost unquestioned assumption is seriously mistaken.

The text analyzes all the important aspects that have to be considered when evaluating photovoltaics as a potential option in the power-supply industry and industrial development. As such an analysis is complex, and multidisciplinary, the work draws upon the expertise of 40 invited experts.

Examines sustainable alternate energy sources, beginning with modeling hydropower and extending the model to include thermal power and wind power. This book uses various econometric measures, equilibrium metrics, or methods, and DEA/productivity analyses to analyze and model the optimal use of these alternate energy sources.