Energy industries and utilities

Bridging the technical and the economical worlds of the energy sector and establishing a solid understanding of today's energy supply as a complex system- with these missions in mind, the book at hand compactly describes the fundamentals of electrical power supply in a dialogue between technology and non-technology, between academia and practitioners, and between nations and continents.

Solar power has become big business, with $131 billion invested in 2018, up from just $11.

The potential for energy transformation from geothermal heat is limitless.

To meet human energy needs, the use of fossil fuels is set to continue well into the second half of the 21st century.

The German abandonment of nuclear power represents one of the most successful popular revolts against technocratic thinking in modern times the triumph of a dynamic social movement, encompassing a broad swath of West Germans as well as East German dissident circles, over political, economic, and scientific elites.

An illustrated history of Britain's coal mines and the lives of the miners who worked in them.

An illustrated history of Britain's coal mines and the lives of the miners who worked in them.

The impact of the oil and gas industry - paradoxically seen both as a blessing and a curse on socio-economic development - is a question at the heart of the comparative studies in this volume stretching from Northern Europe to the Caucasus, the Gulf of Guinea to Latin America.

Indispensable for human existence yet increasingly owned and controlled by private capital; the last decade has witnessed an intensifying battle for water.

Are oil-rich countries prone to war?

'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.

'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists.

The development of Africa's oil has greatly accelerated in recent years, with some countries looking at the prospect of almost unimaginable flows of money into their national budgets.

The development of Africa's oil has greatly accelerated in recent years, with some countries looking at the prospect of almost unimaginable flows of money into their national budgets.

In the global North the commoditization of creativity and knowledge under the banner of a creative economy is being posed as the post-industrial answer to dependency on labour and natural resources.

In the global North the commoditization of creativity and knowledge under the banner of a creative economy is being posed as the post-industrial answer to dependency on labour and natural resources.

The future of clean energy is no longer about science and technology; it's all about access to finance.

The UK energy system has experienced radical reform in past decade - privatisation, liberalisation, re-structuring and re-regulation for gas/electricity supply and coal, plus rapid technological change and flexible fiscal policy in offshore oil/gas.

How far can energy markets be free as well as competitive?

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Bhutan’s economic growth and productivity dynamics from 1990 to 2022, with a special focus on hydropower development.

This book discusses the requirements and preconditions for transforming the economy in order to achieve defined goals while maintaining and utilizing the efficiency of markets.

Safe and Secure Transport and Storage of Radioactive Materials reviews best practice and emerging techniques in this area.

Vapour permeation and membrane distillation are two emerging membrane technologies for the production of vapour as permeate, which, in addition to well-established pervaporation technology, are of increasing interest to academia and industry.

This book provides the definitive account of a decade-long transformation of energy policy in California with rippling consequences.

Oil is the lifeblood of modern civilization, and the industry that supplies it has been the subject of intense interest and scrutiny, as well as countless books.

In a unique journey from the oil fields of the Caspian Sea to the refineries and financial centres of Northern Europe, James Marriott and Mika Minio-Paluello track the concealed routes along which flows the lifeblood of our economy.

From Infrastructure to Services reveals important breakthroughs in country-led and country-wide monitoring of rural and small towns water supplies; ICT for monitoring sustainable service delivery; monitoring the finance needed for service delivery; monitoring for sanitation and hygiene; and building coherence in global-regional-national monitoring.

Decentralized, off-grid power supplies such as micro hydropower can be perceived as expensive investments by poor countries like Nepal.

This book delves into Europe's urgent quest for energy independence as a foundation for the EU and national sovereignty, economic resilience and climate leadership.

The bestselling author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy offers a globetrotting, Sam Spade-style investigation that blows the lid off the oil industry, the banking industry, and the governmental agencies that aren't regulating either.

Many countries around the world are struggling with the challenges of water scarcity, including water for crops.

This book presents a variety of policy adoption methods, irrigation scheduling, and design procedures in micro irrigation engineering for horticultural crops.

This informative new book takes an interdisciplinary look at agricultural and food production and how new engineering practices can be used to enhance production.

Modeling aspects have added a new dimension in research innovations in all branches of engineering.

This book discusses the development of useful models and their applications in soil and water engineering.

This new volume in the Innovations and Challenges in Micro Irrigation series covers an array of technologies to estimate evapotranspiration and to evaluate parameters that are needed in the management of micro irrigation, with worldwide applicability to irrigation management in agriculture.

This new book, Sustainable Micro Irrigation Design Systems for Agricultural Crops, brings together the best research for efficient micro irrigation methods for field crops, focusing on design methods and best practices.

UN studies show that high-income, developed nations treat about 70 percent of their wastewater.

This compendium volume is an indispensable source of information on the ways in which wastewater can impact public health.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

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The fossil fuel industry and many environmental groups tout hydraulic fracturing fracking as a panacea, with slick promises of energy independence, greenhouse gas reductions, and benefits to local economies.

In his bestselling Superpower, renowned economist Ross Garnaut showed that Australia - rich in resources for renewable energy and for capturing carbon in the landscape - could become an economic superpower of the post-carbon world.

Keeping theory to a minimum without sacrificing scientific rigour, this comprehensive guide offers readers a practical approach to boosting the profitability of their biogas plants.

This book examines China's national security strategy by looking at the three major elements-foreign policy, energy security, and naval power-all interactive and major influences on China's future and its relations with the United States.

This comprehensive book presents the latest advances in chemical EOR, considered to be an efficient technique to recover bypassed oil and residual oil trapped in reservoirs.

The Kahans from Baku is the saga of a Russian Jewish family.

The Kahans from Baku is the saga of a Russian Jewish family.

This volume focuses on the broad scope of systems engineering and recent energy technology developments as they relate to the oil and gas industry, which remains a lifeline to communities around the world.