Renewable Energy in the UK Past, Present and Future /

• Main Author: Elliott, David (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Energy, Climate and the Environment
• Subjects: Renewable energy resources.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Environment.; Environmental geography.; Environmental management.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Environment Studies.; Environmental Geography.; Environmental Management.

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 l...

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. .