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How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation

Gregory F. Nemet

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Description:Solar energy is a substantial global industry, one that has generated trade disputes among superpowers, threatened the solvency of large energy companies, and prompted serious reconsideration of electric utility regulation rooted in the 1930s. One of the biggest payoffs from solar's success is not the clean inexpensive electricity it can produce, but the lessons it provides for innovation in other technologies needed to address climate change.Despite the large literature on solar, including analyses of increasingly detailed datasets, the question as to how solar became inexpensive and why it took so long still remains unanswered. Drawing on case studies from the US, Japan, German and China, this book provides a truly comprehensive and international explanation for how solar has become inexpensive. The payoff from understanding the reasons for solar's success is not just to take full advantage of solar's potential. Rather, it can teach us how to support other low-carbon technologies with analogous properties, including small modular nuclear reactors and direct air capture. However, the urgency of addressing climate change means that a key challenge in applying the solar model is in finding ways to speed up innovation. Offering suggestions and policy recommendations for accelerated innovation is another key contribution of this book.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy technology and innovation, climate change and energy analysis and policy, as well as practitioners and policymakers working in the energy industries.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation. To get started finding How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Solar energy is a substantial global industry, one that has generated trade disputes among superpowers, threatened the solvency of large energy companies, and prompted serious reconsideration of electric utility regulation rooted in the 1930s. One of the biggest payoffs from solar's success is not the clean inexpensive electricity it can produce, but the lessons it provides for innovation in other technologies needed to address climate change.Despite the large literature on solar, including analyses of increasingly detailed datasets, the question as to how solar became inexpensive and why it took so long still remains unanswered. Drawing on case studies from the US, Japan, German and China, this book provides a truly comprehensive and international explanation for how solar has become inexpensive. The payoff from understanding the reasons for solar's success is not just to take full advantage of solar's potential. Rather, it can teach us how to support other low-carbon technologies with analogous properties, including small modular nuclear reactors and direct air capture. However, the urgency of addressing climate change means that a key challenge in applying the solar model is in finding ways to speed up innovation. Offering suggestions and policy recommendations for accelerated innovation is another key contribution of this book.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of energy technology and innovation, climate change and energy analysis and policy, as well as practitioners and policymakers working in the energy industries.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation. To get started finding How Solar Energy Became Cheap: A Model for Low-Carbon Innovation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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