Format:
1 online resource (408 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781849710848
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9781136539992
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Conversion Matrix -- 1 Introduction -- The long-term challenge of secure low carbon energy -- Thinking about energy futures -- How the book was written -- Structure of the book -- 2 UK Energy in an Era of Globalization: Trends, Technologies and Environmental Impacts -- Introduction -- Long-term energy trends -- Final energy demand -- How energy is used -- Future energy demand technologies -- Primary energy demand -- Trends in electricity generation -- Future electricity generation technologies -- Energy trade and self-sufficiency -- Energy infrastructure -- Environmental concerns -- Conclusions -- 3 UK Energy Policy and Institutions -- Introduction -- Ownership issues, late 1940s to mid-1990s -- Managing and regulating the flow of electricity -- Managing and regulating the flow of gas -- New issues in energy policy -- UK climate and energy policy development -- UK policies for CO2 emissions reduction, 2000-2010 -- Policies for energy security -- Conclusion -- 4 Energy Futures: The Challenges of Decarbonization and Security of Supply -- Introduction -- Energy systems, decarbonization and resilience -- The scenario framework -- Scenario analysis and modelling tools -- Key assumptions in the core scenarios -- Reference scenario results -- The gap between the Reference scenario and policy aspirations -- 5 Pathways to a Low Carbon Economy -- Introduction -- Scenario design -- Scenario results -- Insights and conclusions -- Annex 5.1: Data for calculation of carbon tax implied by UK Climate Change Levy (CCL) -- 6 A Resilient Energy System -- Introduction -- What can go wrong: shocks to the energy system -- Indicators of resilience -- Quantifying resilience at the macro level
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In conclusion -- Index
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Resilience: implications for energy markets and technologies -- Reliability in the network industries -- Hypothetical system shocks -- Mitigating the shocks -- Adding up the costs of resilience -- Policy implications -- 7 Accelerating the Development of Energy Supply Technologies: The Role of Research and Innovation -- Introduction -- Technological innovation and energy system change -- The accelerated technology development scenarios -- Scenarios, system modelling and the real world -- Accelerated development scenarios and UK decarbonization pathways -- Implications and challenges -- Summary and conclusions -- 8 A Change of Scale? Prospects for Distributed Energy Resources -- Introduction -- Challenges in the residential sector -- Technology characteristics, performance and suitability -- The human dimension: installers and householders -- Policy challenges for distributed energy resources -- Conclusions -- 9 The Way We Live From Now On: Lifestyle and Energy Consumption -- Introduction -- Quantifying lifestyle -- Lifestyle change at home -- Lifestyle change in mobility and transport -- Lifestyle change for a low carbon world -- Public policy implications -- Conclusions -- 10 Not Just Climate Change: Other Social and Environmental Perspectives -- Introduction -- Environmental pressures -- Socio-environmental sensitivities -- Conclusions -- 11 UK Energy in an Uncertain World -- Introduction -- Assumptions and scenarios -- Results -- Conclusions -- 12 Putting It All Together: Implications for Policy and Action -- Introduction -- Current energy system challenges -- The historic context -- Comparing the scenarios -- Multiple pathways to a low carbon economy -- Building in resilience -- Accelerating technological change -- Decarbonizing electricity supply -- Energy demand -- Lifestyle change -- Environmental concerns -- The international context
Additional Edition:
Print version Skea, Jim Energy 2050 Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2010 ISBN 9781849710848
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
URL:
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