Power After Carbon - Building a Clean, Resilient Grid

The electricity sector is facing its toughest test: eliminate carbon emissions while meeting much larger demands for power and adjusting to massive disruptions in its markets, technologies, business models, and policies. Peter Fox-Penner unwinds the industry¿s fast-moving challenges and makes realistic recommendations for this essential industry.

About the author

Peter Fox-Penner is Director of Boston University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy and Professor in BU’s Questrom School of Business, Chief Strategy Officer for Energy Impact Partners, and an advisor and former chairman of The Brattle Group. He previously served as a senior official in the US Department of Energy and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. His published works include the widely acclaimed Smart Power.

Summary

The electricity sector is facing its toughest test: eliminate carbon emissions while meeting much larger demands for power and adjusting to massive disruptions in its markets, technologies, business models, and policies. Peter Fox-Penner unwinds the industry’s fast-moving challenges and makes realistic recommendations for this essential industry.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Fox-Penner
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2020
• EAN: 9780674241077
• ISBN: 978-0-674-24107-7
• No. of pages: 456
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Energy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Electrical, Energy, power generation, distribution and storage, Electrical power generation and distribution industries, Electrical power industries, Power generation & distribution