Renewables in Future Power Systems Implications of Technological Learning and Uncertainty /

• Main Author: Wagner, Fabian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Green Energy and Technology,
• Subjects: Energy.; Renewable energy resources.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Complexity, Computational.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Economic policy.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Complexity.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.

The book examines the future deployment of renewable power from a normative point of view. It identifies properties characterizing the cost-optimal transition towards a renewable power system and analyzes the key drivers behind this transition. Among those drivers, particular attention is paid to te...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Renewables in power generation: Status quo
• Methods for energy system modeling
• Technological change and the experience curve
• Optimal investment strategy for competing learning technologies: An analytical approach
• Optimal future deployment of renewable power technologies: A system model approach
• Implications of uncertainty for renewable power deployment
• Summary and outlook.