3rd Edition

Renewable Energy in the Countryside

By Peter Prag Copyright 2013
144 Pages
by Estates Gazette

144 Pages
by Estates Gazette

Climate change has become a major international issue and the British Government is committed to meeting ambitious targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions within the present decade and beyond. Much of this will rely on an increasing use of renewable energy. Within current technology this will depend almost exclusively upon the use of rural land, whether for wind turbines, for growing... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Incentives, Returns and Rewards  3. Wind Turbines  4. Solar Power  5. Biomass  6. Biogas  7. Biofuels  8. Hydroelectrics  9. Ground and Water Source Heat  10. Emissions Saving  11. Future Imperfect

Biography

Peter Prag is a Chartered Surveyor and a Senior Visiting Fellow in the School of Real Estate and Planning at the University of Reading, UK