Electrification: Accelerating the Energy Transition 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780128221433,0128221437,9780128221761, 0128221763
Product details:
- ISBN-10 : 0128221437
- ISBN-13 : 978-0128221433
- Author: Pami Aalto
Electrification: Accelerating the Energy Transition offers a widely applicable framework to delineate context-sensitive pathways by which this transition can be accelerated and lists the types of processes and structures that may hinder progress towards this goal. The framework draws insights from well-established literature, ranging from technological studies to socio-technical studies of energy transitions, on to strategic niche management approaches, (international) political economy approaches, and institutionalist literatures, while also adopting wider social theoretical ideas from structuration theory. Contributors discuss a multitude of case studies drawn from global examples of electrification projects.
Brief case studies and text boxes help users further understand this domain and the technological, infrastructural and societal structures that may exercise significant powers.
- Proposes a globally applicable, inclusive framework linking together several literatures of energy transition research (ranging from the social sciences to law and engineering)
- Assesses the regional and national applicability of solutions, covering the societal structures and interests that shape the prospects of their implementation
- Extends the analysis from technological and infrastructural solutions to the policies required to accelerate transition
- Introduces several country level case studies, thus demonstrating how to harness niches of innovation, kick-start the adoption of a solution, and make it mainstream
Table of contents:
- Chapter 1. Introduction: electrification and the energy transition
- Chapter 2. Globally and locally applicable technologies to accelerate electrification
- Chapter 3. How to accelerate electrification? The leverage of policies
- Chapter 4. How can society accelerate renewable energy production?
- Chapter 5. The role of energy storage and backup solutions for management of a system with a high amount of variable
- Chapter 6. Toward smarter and more flexible grids
- Chapter 7. Policies for climate-neutral road transport
- Chapter 8. Electrification and energy efficiency in buildings: Policy implications and interactions
- Chapter 9. From energy consumers to prosumers—how do policies influence the transition?
- Chapter 10. Anticipating future trends in energy transition: Multilevel dynamics in energy policy agenda-setting
- Chapter 11. How to combine various solutions in a national context?
- Chapter 12. Analyzing electrification scenarios for the northern European energy system
- Chapter 13. Toward a roadmap for electrification