1st Edition

Energy Strategies for the UK

By Stephen Littlechild, Kirit Vaidya Copyright 1982
258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

258 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1982. This book describes a comprehensive and integrated model of the UK energy sector which focuses on decision-making and optimisation rather than on forecasting or simulation. It incorporates the production and investment policy of all the major fuels over a fifty-year horizon and analyses strategy under a variety of different assumptions about costs, demands,... Read more

Preface 1. UK Energy Sector: Past, Present and Future 2. Survey of Energy Models 3. The Birmingham Energy Model: General Description 4. The Birmingham Energy Model: Mathematical Formulation and Data 5. Base Case Results 6. Base Case Sensitivity Analyses 7. International Trade Policy 8. Conservation 9. Non-nuclear Futures 10. Variable Demand 11. Summary, Updating and Conclusions

Biography

Stephen Littlechild, Kirit Vaidya