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Renewable Energy for Residential Heating and Cooling: Policy Handbook

by International Energy Authority Renewable

Heating and cooling represent significant energy loads around the world, with the associated high level of carbon emissions. Many countries have commitments in place to derive an increasing proportion of the...


Double or Quits?: The Future of Civil Nuclear Energy

by Peter Beck & Malcolm C C Grimston

Global energy demand is likely to rise substantially by the mid-21st century. At the same time, the use of fossil fuels may need to be severely curtailed to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. Nuclear power...


Future Bioenergy and Sustainable Land Use

by Renate Schubert

Because of the major opportunities and risks associated with it, and the complexity of the subject, bioenergy policy has in a short time become a challenging political task for regulators and planners - a task...


The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future

by Hermann Scheer

The global economy and our way of life are based on the exploitation of fossil fuels, which not only threaten massive environmental and social disruption through global warming but, at present rates of consumption,...


Powering the Green Economy: The Feed-in Tariff Handbook

by Miguel Mendon?a

Effective policy is vital for creating greener economies, new jobs and industries, for securing energy supplies and for protecting the climate and environment. As renewable energy is fundamental to achieving...


Keeping the Lights On: Towards Sustainable Electricity

by Walt Patterson

?This is such a timely book. Combining extraordinary historical insight with the sharpest analysis of where we are now, Walt Patterson carves out the most applied and practical of 'road maps' as to where we...


Planning and Installing Photovoltaic Systems: A Guide for Installers, Architects and Engineers

by Deutsche Gesellschaft Fur Sonnenene Dgs

Growth in photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing worldwide continues its upward trajectory. This bestselling guide has become the essential tool for installers, engineers and architects, detailing every subject necessary...


Renewable Energy: A Global Review of Technologies, Policies and Markets

by Dirk Assmann

'offers knowledge and inspiration to promote renewable energy in developing and industrialized countries' Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of UNEP From technology to financing issues, Renewable Energy offers...


Switching to Renewable Power: A Framework for the 21st Century

by Volkmar Lauber

Renewable energy has enjoyed relatively good - and sometimes extraordinary - growth in recent years, in particular photovoltaics and wind; but it will be difficult to sustain such rates of diffusion on a global...


The Handbook of Biomass Combustion and Co-firing

by Jaap Koppejan & Sjaak van van Loo

This unique handbook presents both the theory and application of biomass combustion and co-firing, from basic principles to industrial combustion and environmental impact, in a clear and comprehensive manner....


Energy and the New Reality 2 - Carbon-free Energy Supply

by L.D. Danny D. Danny Harvey

Transforming our energy supplies to be more sustainable is seen by many to be the biggest challenge of our times. In this comprehensive textbook, L. D. Danny Harvey sets out in unprecedented detail the path...


The Modern Energy Matchmaker: Connecting Investors with Entrepreneurs

by Michele Ashby

Explaining the trends and key words in the green energy movement, this book examines the idea of modern energy—a combination of old and new energy resources—and the costs involved in making them operational....


Geothermal Heat Pumps: A Guide for Planning and Installing

by Karl Ochsner

Geothermal Heat Pumps is the most comprehensive guide to the selection, design and installation of geothermal heat pumps available. This leading manual presents the most recent information and market developments...


Planning and Installing Solar Thermal Systems: A Guide for Installers, Architects and Engineers

by Deutsche Gesellschaft fu?r Sonnenenergie

Solar thermal systems available today offer efficiency and reliability. They can be applied in different conditions to meet space- and water-heating requirements in the residential, commercial and industrial...


Technology Transfer for Renewable Energy

by Gill Wilkins

This text highlights the role that renewable energy can play in achieving sustainable development. It focuses on rural areas of developing countries, looking in particular at stand-alone solar home systems and...


The Renewable Energy Handbook, Revised Edition in Colour: The Updated Comprehensive Guide to Renewable Energy and Independent Living

Solar Home Heating Basics: A Green Energy Guide

by Dan Chiras

A clean and simple introduction to heating your home with the power of the sun


Thriving During Challenging Times: The Energy, Food and Financial Independence Handbook

by Cam Mather

There's never been a better time to be in control of your fuel, food, and finances.


Harvest the Wind: America's Journey to Jobs, Energy Independence, and Climate Stability

by Philip Warburg

Winds sweeping across the Great Plains once robbed the Farm Belt of its future, stripping away overworked topsoil and creating the dreaded Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Today, those winds are bringing new hope to...


The Energy Imperative

by Hermann Scheer

For decades, Hermann Scheer was one of the world's leading proponents of renewable energy. In this, his last book before his death in 2010, he lays out his vision for a planet 100% powered by renewables and...