Energy in Australia Peak Oil, Solar Power, and Asia’s Economic Growth

Energy in Australia Peak Oil, Solar Power, and Asia’s Economic Growth / by Graham Palmer.

With rapidly declining costs and seemingly unlimited sunshine, the choice of solar in Australia seems obvious. Yet despite its many advantages, homes with solar remain completely dependent on the electricity grid for reliable supply, which in Australia implies mostly coal-fired generation. Indeed, e...

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Main Author: Palmer, Graham (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edition:1st ed. 2014.
Series:Energy Analysis,
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Renewable energy resources.
Energy systems.
Sustainable development.
Energy policy.
Energy and state.
Environmental economics.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:Loaded electronically.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Introduction - One million solar systems
  • Chapter 2: Quarry Australia – building Australia on coal
  • Chapter 3: Towards optimized complexity – integrating intermittency
  • Chapter 4: Electricity networks - managing peak demand
  • Chapter 5: EROI of Solar PV
  • Chapter 6: Driving down emissions: the role of carbon pricing
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index.

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