This textbook explains the main economic mechanisms behind energy markets and assesses how governments can implement policies to improve how these markets function. Adopting a micro-economic perspective, the book systematically analyses the various types of market failures on th…
"Unlike any other book on the topic, Efficiency and sustainability in the energy and chemical industries prepares engineers for the transition from fossil-based, non-sustainable technologies to sustainable low-waste procedures using renewable energy and resources ..."--Page 4 of…
Explores fundamental changes that have taken place worldwide in electricity economics and planning since the publication of the author's initial book on the subject, "Power System Economics", in 1983. It introduces the planning options likely to arise in the 1990s and beyond.
As the world's energy system faces a period of unprecedented change, a global struggle over who controls the sectorùand for what purposesùis intensifying. The question of "green capitalism" is now unavoidable, for capitalist planners and anti-capitalist struggles alike. From all…
There are no technofixes. Neither 'clean' energy nor 'green' capitalism will preserve our lands, rivers, oceans, health, and lives. Neither governments nor corporations nor 'the market' can bring us out of the netherworld they themselves have created. Mother Earth calls to the g…
