By Arnulf Grübler,Charlie Wilson

strength know-how innovation - bettering how we produce and use strength - is necessary for a transition in the direction of sustainability. This booklet offers a wealthy set of twenty case reviews of power expertise innovation embedded inside a unifying conceptual framework. It offers insights into why a few innovation efforts were extra winning than others, and attracts vital coverage conclusions. The case experiences hide a variety of power applied sciences, starting from strength offer to strength finish use, from successes to mess ups and from industrialized, rising and constructing economies. The case experiences are provided by way of a world staff of eminent students less than the auspices of the worldwide power evaluate (GEA), whose major quantity was once released in 2012 by way of Cambridge collage Press. strength know-how Innovation offers new info, new techniques and novel analytical and coverage views. it is going to end up to be worthy for researchers, coverage makers, economists, commercial innovators and marketers within the box of power technology.

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