1st Edition
Repowering Communities Small-Scale Solutions for Large-Scale Energy Problems
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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Energy policy is at a crossroads. Attempts to meet targets for carbon emissions, energy security and affordable energy for vulnerable households are all on a trajectory to failure. Aggressive ambitions to roll out huge off-shore wind, nuclear and clean coal plants are proposed, but without any clear plans on how funds will be mobilized, or transmission and distribution infrastructure developed.... Read more
1. Introduction 2. The Need for Transformation 3. Why Existing Energy Companies aren't Delivering – Can a Shark go Vegan? 4. Why Governments aren't Delivering 5. Delivering Low Carbon Communities 6. Financing Community Energy Initiatives 7. Increasing the Price of Energy and Helping Renewables without Punishing the Poor 8. Nudging and Shoving People and Business into Changing their Behaviour 9. Bringing this Together – A New Ecology of Energy Markets
Biography
Prashant Vaze is the Chief Economist at Consumer Focus, UK. Previously he spent 15 years in the UK's Office of Climate Change, the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit and the Department of the Environment. He is author of The Economical Environmentalist (Earthscan, 2009). Stephen Tindale is Associate Fellow at the Centre for European Reform and co-founder of the Climate Answers website (www.climateanswers.info). He has worked on climate change for the last two decades, for NGOs, think tanks, government and an energy company.
