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  title info:
    title: Renewable Energy in the UK
    sub title: Past, Present and Future
  name:
    name part: Elliott, David.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 322 p. 19 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book offers a detailed account of how renewable energy has moved from the margins to the mainstream in the UK, and of the battles that have been fought to achieve this, trawling through the often troubled history of government involvement. The book examines how renewables became what now seem likely to be the dominant energy sources of the future. Renewable energy technologies, using solar and wind power and other natural energy sources, are now supplying around 30% of UK electricity and appear set to continue expanding to supply around 50% within the next decade. Although the emphasis of the book is on the UK, developments there are compared with those in other countries to provide an overall assessment of the relevance of the UK experience. Chapters explore why the UK still lags behind many other countries in deploying renewables, in part, it is argued, due to its continued reliance on nuclear power. The book ends with a discussion on what sort of changes may be expected over the coming years. The author does not assume a single answer, but invites readers to consider the possibilities. David Elliott is Emeritus Professor of Technology Policy at the Open University, UK. He worked initially with the UK Atomic Energy Authority at Harwell and then for the Central Electricity Generating Board in Bristol, before moving, in the early 1970's, to the Open University, where he carried out research and developed courses on technological innovation, focusing in particular on renewable energy technology development policy. Professor Elliott has written extensively on sustainable energy policy and is co-editor of Palgrave Macmillan's 'Energy, Climate and Environment' series, and also editor of the long established journal, Renew.
  table of contents: 1. Renewables: From the Fringe to Dominance -- 2. The Government Takes an Interest in the 1970s -- 3. The Technology Moves on in the 1980s -- 4. Forward to the Market into the 1990s -- 5. Interim Analysis of the Story So Far -- 6. The Market Takes Off Into the 2000s -- 7. Sorting the System in the 2010s -- 8. The Future into the 2020s and Beyond. .
  note: by David Elliott.
  subject:
    topic: Renewable energy resources
  subject:
    topic: Energy policy
  subject:
    topic: Energy and state
  subject:
    topic: Environment
  subject:
    topic: Environmental geography
  subject:
    topic: Environmental management
  subject:
    topic: Renewable and Green Energy
  subject:
    topic: Energy Policy, Economics and Management
  subject:
    topic: Environment Studies
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Geography
  subject:
    topic: Environmental Management
  classification: TJ807-830
  classification: 621.042
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Energy, Climate and the Environment
  identifier: 9783030047658
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04765-8
  record info:
    record creation date: 190108
    record change date: 20191026091138.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-04765-8