Renewable energy reference list - Leeds

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Bibliography

The Business Case for Renewable Energy Technologies


Compiled by Prof. Stephen Lawrence

Leeds School of Business

University of Colorado at Boulder

Stephen.Lawrence@colorado.edu

http://Leeds
-
faculty.colorado.edu/Lawrence/RETool



Introduction

to Renewable Energy



Boyle,
Renewable Energy,
2
nd

ed, Oxford University Press, 2004

(book)



Kammen, “Rise of Renewable Energy,”
Scientific American,
September 2006
. (10 pages)



Bozol, Campbell, and Lindstrand, “Global Trends in Energy,”
McKinsey Quarterly,
No.
1,
2007
. (9 pages)



Makower, Pernick, Wilder,
Clean Energy Trends 20
09
,
CleanEdge, March 20
09
.
(22 pages)



IEA,
Renewables in Global Energy Supply
,
2007. (34
pages)



Boyle, “Introducing Renewable Energy,” Chapter 1 in
Renewable Energy,
2
nd

ed, Oxford
University Press, 2004



Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21
st

Century,
www.ren21.net


Energy Fundamentals



Lancaster, “Some Energ
y Fundamentals,”
The
Blatant

Opportunist

71, 2002.

(7 pages)



US Energy Flow Trends
–

2002,
Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, 2004. (1 page)




Herman,
Earth’s Exergy Resources,
slides, GCEP Research Symposium, 2006. (49 pages)



Herman, “Quantifying Global Exer
gy Resources,”
Energy

31, 2006. (18 pages)




“
Basics of Energy and Its Various Forms
,”
Chapter 2 in
Book I
-

General Aspect of Energy
Management and Energy Audit
,

Bureau of Energy Efficiency, India, 20
09
. (19 pages)


Energy Economics




“Global Market
Overview,” C
hapters 1
-
3 in
Renewables 2007: Global Status Report,
Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21
st

Century,
www.ren21.net
. (17 pages)



Pater,
A Framework for Evaluating the Total Value Proposition of Clean Energy T
echnologies
,
NREL

Technical Report NREL/TP
-
620
-
38957
, February

2006.

(
83 pages)



IEA,
Experience Curves for Energy Technology Policy,
OECD/IEA 2000

(133 pages)


Renewable Energy
Policy




“Policy Lan
d
scape,” C
hapter 4 in
Renewables 2007: Global Status Report,
Renewable Energy
Policy Network for the 21
st

Century,
www.ren21.net
. (13 pages)



Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency
,
www.dsir
eusa.org


Renewable Energy
Project Financing



Woodroof, “Financing Energy Management Projects,” Chapter 2 in
Energy Project Financing,
Thumann and Woodroof (eds.), CRC Press, 2009
. (65 pages)




Prof Stephen Lawrence

Leeds School of Business
–

CU Boulder

Spring 2009

2


The Business Case for
Wind Energy




20% Wind by 2030
, Executive

Summary, DOE/GO
-
1020
09
-
2578, May 20
09



IEA,
Wind Annual Report
, Executive Summary,
International Energy Assoc,
2007



NREL,
Wind Energy Myths,
DOE/GO
-
102005
-
2137, May 2005



American Wind Energy Association (AWEA),
www.AWEA.org



Ham
m, “Wind: The Power, the Promise, the Business,”
Business Week,
3 July 20
09



AWEA,
Ten Steps for Building a Wind Farm,

www.awea.org



Windustry,
www.windustry.org



Wizelius,
Developing Wind

Power Projects,
Earthscan, 20
09

(book)


The Business Case for
Solar PV Energy



Lorenz,
Pinner, & Seitz, “Economics of Solar Power,”
McKinsey Quarterly,
June 20
09




Zweibel, Mason
,

&

Fthenakis
, “A Solar Grand Plan,”
Scientific American,
January 20
09



Borenstein,
The Market Value and Cost of Solar Photovoltaic Energy Production,
working
paper CSEM WP 176, Center for the Study of Energy Needs, 20
09
. (38 pages)



American Solar Energy Society,
www.ASES.org


The Business
Case for
Solar Thermal Energy



Philibert,
The Present and Future Use of Solar Thermal Energy as a Primary Source of Energy
,
IEA 2005



NREL,
Parabolic Trough Solar Thermal Electric Power Plants
,
DOE/GO
-
102006
-
2339
,

July 2007



European Solar Thermal Energy Association (ESTELA),
www.estelasolar.eu




“What’s Raining on Solar’s Parade?”
Business Week Online,
Feb 6, 2007. (1 page)



Smith, “Solar’s Day in the Sun,”
The Wall Street Journal,
Nov 17, 200
5. (2 pages)



Philibert,
Barriers to Technology Diffusion: The Case of Solar Thermal Technologies,
report
COM/ENV/EPOC/IEA/SLT(2006)9
, IEA, 2006. (29 pages
)



Earth2tech blog,
First Solar Reaches Grid Parity
,
Earth2T
ech.com/20
09
/12/21/report
-
first
-
solar
-
reaches
-
grid
-
parity/



SolarBuzz website,
www.SolarBuzz.com



Solar Energy Industries Association,
www.SEIA.org


The Business Case for
Geothermal Energy



Slack,
U.S. Geothermal Power Production and Development Update
,
Geothermal Energy
Association, August 20
09



Dickson
&
Fanelli
,
What is Ge
othermal Energy,
Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, CNR ,
Pisa, Italy
, February 2004



Geothermal Energy Association,
www.geo
-
energy.org


Energy Transmission

Economics



DOE,
The Electricity Delivery System,
Electricity Del
ivery and En
ergy Reliability, Feb

2006



Talbot, “Lifeline for Renewable Power,”
Technology Review,
Jan/Feb 2009



Grant, Starr, & Overbye, “A Power Grid for the Hydrogen Economy,”
Scientific American,
July 2006



Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy
Reliability
,
www.oe.energy.gov



Gridworks,
www.energetics.com/gridworks/index.html

Prof Stephen Lawrence

Leeds School of Business
–

CU Boulder

Spring 2009

3


The Business Case for
Distributed Generation



Distributed Generation
,
I
nstituti
on of Engineering & Technology,

2006. (6 pages)



Casten & Downes, “The Case for Decentralized Generation of Electricity,
” Skeptical

Inquirer
29(1), Jan/Feb 2005
. (14 pages)



K
reider & Curtis, “Distributed Electrical Generation Technologies and their

Economic
Assessment,” ASHRAE Transactions 106(1), 2000. (10 pages)



Boyle, “Integration,” Chapter 10 in
Renewable Energy,
2
nd

ed, Oxford University Press, 2004.


The Business Case for
Energy Storage



Naughton, “Now we are cooking with … batteries,”
Newsweek,
1 Dec 20
09
. (3 pages)



Makansi &Abboud,
Energy Storage: The Missing Link in the Electricity Value Chain
, Energy
Storage Council, May 2002
. (23 pages)



Sullivan, Short, & Blair,
Modeling the Benefits of Storage Technologies to Wind Power,
NREL,
Con
ference paper NREL/CP
-
670
-
43510
, 20
09
.



Electricity Storage Association,
www.electricitystorage.org



Energy Storage Council,
www.energystoragecouncil.org



NREL Energy Storage,
www.nrel.gov
/vehiclesandfuels/energystorage


The Business Case for
Smart Grids



Siddiqui,
The Green Grid,

EPRI Technical Update Report 1016905, May 20
09



Fairley, “A Power Grid

Smartens Up,”
Technology Review,
20 March 20
09



DOE,
Smart Grid: An Introduction,
US Dept. of Energy, DOE Contract
DE
-
AC26
-
04NT41817,
20
09



Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition,
www.drsgcoalition.org


The Business Case for
Biofuels

–

Overview



BioFuel Production,
IEA Energy Technology Essentials, ETE02, Jan 2007. (4 pages)



Caesar, Reise, & Seitz, “Betting on Biofuels,”
McKinsey Quarterly
(2), 2007. (11 pages)



Singer, “Biofuels Beyond Corn,”
Technology Re
view,
21 Jun 2007. (2 pages)



Sustainable Biofuels: Prospects and Challenges,
The
Royal Society, January 20
09

(90 pages)



Boyle, “Bioenergy,” Chapter 4 in
Renewable Energy,
2
nd

ed, Oxford University Press, 2004.



Alternative Energy Price Report,
http://www.afdc.energy.gov/afdc/price_report.html
,
Energy Efficien
cy and Renewable Energy (EERE)
–

monthly
.



BioEnergy Wiki
–

www.bioenergywiki.net


The Business Case for
Alcohol Fuels



Wald, “Is Ethanol for the Long Haul?”
Scientific American,
January 2007. (8 pages)



Hahn & Cecot,
The Benefits and Costs of Ethanol,
working paper 07
-
15, AEI
-
Brookings Joint
Center for Regulatory Studies, November 2007.
(32 pages)



Wallace, “Ethanol: A Tragedy in 3 Acts,”
Business Week,
April 26, 2006. (3 pages)




“Alcohol Fuel,” Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_fuel



Renewable Fuels Association,
www.ethanolrfa.org



American Coalition for Ethanol,
www.ethanol.org



Prof Stephen Lawrence

Leeds School of Business
–

CU Boulder

Spring 2009

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The Business Case for
BioDiesel



Ashley, “Diesels Come Clean,”
Scientific American,
March 2007. (8 pages)



Fehrenbacher, “15 Algae Startups Bringing Pond Scum to Fuel Tanks,
earth2tech

website,
March 27, 20
09
. (3 pages)



Renner, “Green Gold in a Shrub,”
Scientific America,
June 2007. (2 pages)




“Biodiesel,” Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel



“Algae Fuel,” Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae_fuel



National Biodiesel Board,
www.nbb.org


Commercializing Biofuels



Khosla,
Biofuels Trajectory for Success,

20
09
. (38 pages)



Dikeman,
Cleantech Venture Capitalists Beware,
blog of 13
-
Oct
-
20
09
. (2 pages)



“Grow your Own,”
Economist Magazine,
19 June 20
09
. (2 pages)




NREL,
The Biomass Economy,
NREL/JA
-
810
-
31967, July 2002


The Business Case for Fuel Cells



DOE,
Fuel Cell Overview,
2007. (2 pages)



IEA,
Fuel Cells,
ETE06, April 2007. (
4

pages)



Ashley, “On the Road to Fuel Cell Cars,”
Scientific American,
March 2005. (9
pages)



Carlson, Kopf, Sinha, Sriramulu, & Yang,
Cost Analysis of PEM Fuel Cell
,
NREL/SR
-
560
-
39104
,
2005. (109 pages)


The Business Case for
Hydrogen



IEA,
Hydrogen Production and Distribution,
ETE05, April 2007. (4 pages)



Ogden, “High Hopes for Hydrogen,”
S
cientific American,
September 2006. (8 pages)



Bossel, Eliasson, & Taylor,
The Future of the Hyd
rogen Economy: Bright or Bleak?

Fuel Cell
Seminar,
November 2003. (39 pages)


The Business Case for Plug
-
In Hybrid Vehicles



Sanna, “Driving the Solution,”
EPRI

Solution,
Fall 2005. (10 pages)



Romm & Frank, “Hybrid Vehicles Gain Traction,”
Scientific American,
April 2007. (8 pages)



Lamoine, Kammen, & Farrell, “An Innovation and Policy Agenda for Commercially Viable
Plug
-
in Hybrid Electric Vehicles,”
Environmental

Research Letters

3, 20
09
. (11 pages)



Simpson,
Cost
-
Benefit Analysis of Plug
-
In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technology
, NREL/CP
-
540
-
40485, November 2006. (15 pages)


The Business Case for
Energy Efficiency



Jochem, “An Efficient Solution,”
Scientific American,
September 2006. (4 pages)



Farrell, Nyquist, Rogers, “Making the Most of the World’s Energy Resources,”
McKinsey
Quarterly
(1), 2007. (11 pages)



Farrell, Nyquist, Rogers, “Curbing the Growth of Global Energy Demand,”
McKinsey
Quarterly
, web exclusive, July

2007. (12 pages)



Jacobs,
Technologies for Transportation Efficiency,
July 2007. (45 pages)



Ashley, “Diesels Come Clean,”
Scientific American,
March 2007. (8 pages)



Heywood, “Fueling our Transportation Future,”
Scientific American,
September 2006. (4
page
s)