Renewable Energy Governance Complexities and Challenges
This book focuses on Renewable Energy (RE) governance - the institutions, plans, policies and stakeholders that are involved in RE implementation - and the complexities and challenges associated with this much discussed energy area. Whilst RE technologies
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Evanthie Michalena Jeremy Maxwell Hills Editors
Renewable Energy Governance Complexities and Challenges
Lecture Notes in Energy Volume 23
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Evanthie Michalena Jeremy Maxwell Hills •
Editors
Renewable Energy Governance Complexities and Challenges
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Editors Evanthie Michalena ENeC Laboratory, UMR 8185 Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and CNRS INSHS Paris France
ISSN 2195-1284 ISBN 978-1-4471-5594-2 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-5595-9
Jeremy Maxwell Hills CTL Consult Newcastle upon Tyne UK
ISSN 2195-1292 (electronic) ISBN 978-1-4471-5595-9 (eBook)
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Preface
Two decades after the take-off of the renewable energy (RE) systems and continuous increases in the electricity bills, customers start to seek answers. Answers related to the efficiency/effectiveness of RE systems, answers related to local benefits in relation to huge profits of some private RE developers, and answers related to tax being spent supporting the ballooning institutional architecture (Energy Regulators, Transport System Operators, Public Utilities, International RE Agencies).
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