By
Woodrow Clark, Clark Communications LLC, Los Angeles, USA
Ted Bradshaw, University of California, Davis, USA
Description
*
Empowering decision makers by setting the vision for a new approach to energy systems and providing the tools
and plans to achieve these objectives
* Provides specific and
actionable public policy and programme tools
* Help solve energy issues
worldwide by illustrating how the lessons learned from the California energy crisis can
be used to create an
agile energy system for any region in a country
Due to the recent catastrophic energy system failures
in California along with those in the North-Eastern US and Southern Canada, London, and Italy, the time has come to proclaim the failure
of deregulation, privatization or liberalization and propose a new energy system. This book shows in the first section, how five precipitating
forces led to the deregulation debacle in California: (1) major technological changes and commercialization, (2) regulatory needs mismatched
to societal adjustments, (3) inadequate and flawed economic models, (4) lack of vision, goals, and planning leading to energy failures,
and (5) failure and lack of economic regional development.
The second half of the book examines how "civic market", new economic
models, and planning for a sustainable economic environment counteracted these five forces to create an "agile energy system". This system
is based on renewable energy generation, hybrid or combined and distributed generation technologies. Such an agile system can be a new
paradigm for both energy efficiency and reliability for any region or country, in contrast to the brittle centralized energy grid systems
created by deregulation. Furthermore, the book overviews how the future of energy systems rests in the emerging "clean" hydrogen economy.
Included in series
Elsevier Global Energy Policy and Economics Series
Audience:
Energy decision makers, researchers, public policy workers and company executives
