Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- About This Book
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Global Warming and Climate Change
- 2 Solar Power and Sustainable Energy Technologies and Their Impact on Global Economy
- 3 Overview of Solar Power System Technology
- 4 Solar Power System Economics
- 5 Long-Term Project Financing and Power Purchase Agreements
- 6 Solar Power Rebates, Financing, and Feed-In Tariffs Programs
- 7 Importance of Solar Power System Peak Power Performance and Solar Power System Hazard Mitigation
- 8 Solar Power System Econometric and Analytical Software Solution
- 9 Economics of Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Carbon Trading
- 10 The Smart Grid Systems Deployment and Economics
- 11 Environmental Design Considerations
- 12 Energy Storage Systems
- Appendix A Unit Conversion and Design Reference Tables
- Appendix B Energy Systems
- Appendix C Glossary of Solar Energy Power Terms
- Appendix D California Solar Initiative – PV Incentives
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- About This Book
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Global Warming and Climate Change
- 2 Solar Power and Sustainable Energy Technologies and Their Impact on Global Economy
- 3 Overview of Solar Power System Technology
- 4 Solar Power System Economics
- 5 Long-Term Project Financing and Power Purchase Agreements
- 6 Solar Power Rebates, Financing, and Feed-In Tariffs Programs
- 7 Importance of Solar Power System Peak Power Performance and Solar Power System Hazard Mitigation
- 8 Solar Power System Econometric and Analytical Software Solution
- 9 Economics of Carbon Dioxide Sequestration and Carbon Trading
- 10 The Smart Grid Systems Deployment and Economics
- 11 Environmental Design Considerations
- 12 Energy Storage Systems
- Appendix A Unit Conversion and Design Reference Tables
- Appendix B Energy Systems
- Appendix C Glossary of Solar Energy Power Terms
- Appendix D California Solar Initiative – PV Incentives
- Index
Summary
Preface
In the past decade, deployment of solar power systems has been misunderstood and hampered mainly by lack of appreciation of the technology, as well as by skeptics who without knowledge of solar power system technology and its economics have flooded the media with opinions that are inaccurate and misrepresentative regarding significant benefits of the technology in terms of its significant impact on global warming and its inevitable future economic significance.
In previously published books, I have discussed implications of global dependency on fossil fuel use and the consequences of global warming, which due to the topics’ significance, are once more been discussed in this book.
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