Winfried Hoffmann

The Economic Competitiveness of Renewable Energy (eBook, PDF)

Pathways to 100% Global Coverage

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides a comprehensive picture of today's energy world, describes the potential for energy savings that can be achieved, and analyzes the technology developments which will lead to a 100% renewable energy-powered world The world is at the crossroads of either quickly changing the energy picture towards implementing efficient renewable energy sources or postponing this process by another generation. Based on the author's more than 30 years' industrial experience, this book gives a set of assumptions by extrapolating known technology developments and shows that 100% coverage by renewable technology of global energy needs is much more probable than previously argued. Basic facts using "rule of thumb" and "order-of-magnitude" considerations underpin the author's argument. The book shows how energy efficiency technologies will be able to drastically reduce the energy consumption for the same quality of life. The most relevant renewable energy technologies are discussed. Solar photovoltaic, solar thermal concentrators, solar thermal wind, as well as biomass and biofuels, hydro, geothermal, wave, and tidal technologies are debated. The conclusion of this unique book shows how and why the renewable technologies will be cost competitive and even superior to the traditional technologies in the mid-term. Market-pull instead of technology-push provide the increase of the cumulative installed volume of the new renewable technologies, thereby driving down the specific price of the critical components along Price Experience Curves.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118939253
• Artikelnr.: 41117638

Autorenporträt

Winfried Hoffmann obtained his PhD in biophysics in 1977. From 1997 until 2014 he was a member of the Board of EPIA (European PV Industry Association) and President for more than eight years. He is a member of the Scientific Board of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy and the NEXT Institute in Oldenburg, as well as a member of the Supervisory Board of the Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hameln and the Helmholtz Centre Berlin. He acts as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Solarfabrik AG and is a member of the Supervisory Board of SMA Solar Technology AG. In 2012 he received the "European Becquerel Prize for Outstanding Merits in PV" from the European Commission.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword xiii Preface xvii Acknowledgements xxiii List of Abbreviations xxv
1 Introduction 1 1.1 The Changing World 1 1.2 Why Another Book on 100%
Renewables? 3 2 Analysis of Today's Energy Situation 7 2.1 Basic Energy
Terms 7 2.2 Global Energy Situation 11 2.3 Energy Sectors 13 2.4 Challenges
for Fossil Fuels 16 2.5 Problems with Nuclear Energy 29 3 The Importance of
Energy Efficiency Measures 33 3.1 Traditional Extrapolation of Future
Energy Demands or Alternatively "The Same or with Renewables Even Better
Quality of Life with Much Less Energy" 33 3.2 Decrease in End Energy Needs
with a "Better Quality of Life" 35 3.3 Today's Energy Needs with Known
Energy Efficiency Measures 41 3.4 Support Mechanisms to Facilitate New
Products: Ban The Old or Facilitate The New Ones 42 4 Overview of the Most
Important Renewable Energy Technologies 45 4.1 Basics About the Potential
of Various Renewable Technologies 45 4.2 Wind Energy 48 4.3 Solar Thermal
Collectors and Concentrators 57 4.4 Bioenergy: Biomass and Fuel 66 4.5
Photovoltaics 68 4.6 Other Renewable Technologies 70 5 PV Market
Development 77 5.1 Strategic and Consumer Goods in Society and Why
Strategic Ones Need Initial Support 77 5.2 PV Applications and History 84
5.3 Historical PV Market Development 88 5.4 Feed-in Tariffs - Sustainable
Versus Boom and Bust Market Growth 93 5.5 PV Market Development Towards
2020 101 5.6 Total Budget for Feed-in Tariff Support as Positive Investment
for National Economies and Merit Order Effects for Electricity Customers
106 5.7 New Electricity Market Design for Increasing Numbers of Variable
Renewable Energy Systems 110 5.8 Developments for the Future Energy
Infrastructure 111 6 PV Value Chain and Technology 117 6.1 Basics of Solar
Radiation and Conversion in PV Cells 117 6.2 Value Chain for Crystalline
Silicon PV Systems 122 6.3 Value Chain for Thin-Film Technologies 134 6.4
Concentrated PV (CPV) and III?V Compound Solar Cells 137 6.5 New
Technologies (Dye, OPV, and Novel Concepts) 138 6.6 Other Cost Components
for PV Systems 141 6.7 Marimekko Plot for PV Systems and Summary Chart for
Cell Efficiencies 142 7 The Astonishing Predictive Power of Price
Experience Curves 147 7.1 Basics about Price Experience Curves 147 7.2
Relevant Price Experience Curves Comparable to PV 148 7.3 Lesson Learned
from PECs Discussed 151 7.4 Price Experience Curve for PV Modules 152 7.5
Price Experience Curve for DC/AC inverters 159 7.6 Price Experience Curve
for Wind Energy and Other Relevant Products for a 100% Renewable World 161
8 Future Technology Development 163 8.1 General Remarks on Future
Technology Developments 163 8.2 Photovoltaics 164 8.3 Wind Energy 170 8.4
Solar Thermal 171 8.5 Other Renewables 171 8.6 Other System Components 171
8.7 Importance of the Renewable Energy Portfolio - in Particular Solar and
Wind 175 9 Future Energy Projections - The 150 Peta-Watt-hour Challenge 179
9.1 Historical Development 179 9.2 Some Future Projections and Scenarios by
Others 180 9.3 Global Energy Scenarios and Market Development of the Major
Renewables from the Author's Point of View 186 10 Likelihood of and
Timeline for a World Powered by 100% Renewable Energy 203 10.1 Likelihood
of a 100% Renewable World 203 10.2 Global Network or Local Autonomy? 205
10.3 Timeline for a 100% Renewable World 209 11 Conclusion: The 100%
Renewable Energy Puzzle 213 References 219 Index 225