Investment in Renewable Technologies Worldwide

Table of Contents

A. Executive Summary

B. Introduction to the Energy Crisis

• Effect on Economy
• Historical Crises
• Future and Alternative Sources of Energy

C. The Investment Case for Renewable Power

D. Introduction to Hydropower

• What is Hydropower?
• Historical Background
• Hydro Dams
• Hydropower Plants
• How a Hydropower Plant Works
• Heat & Flow
• Storing Energy
• Pumped Storage Systems
• Hydropower Production
• Hydropower for Baseload Power
• Economics of Hydropower
• Hydropower & the Environment
• Other Hydro Resources
• Tidal Energy
• Wave Energy
• OTEC
• The Biological Cost of Hydropower

E. Wind Power

• Overview of Wind Energy
• Wind in the Energy Market
• Economics of Wind Energy
• Financing Alternatives for Wind Power
• Business Drivers for Wind Power
• Challenges & Barriers to Growth
• Market Trends

F. Biomass

• What is Biomass?
• Biomass Use in the Developing World
• Technical Aspects
• Combustion Theory
• Technologies Involved
• Charcoal Production
• Briquetting
• Animal Waste
• Commercial Utilization of Biomass
• Issues & Challenges
• Biomass Energy: Cost and Scale Issues - A Graphical Representation

G. Solar Power

• Introduction to Solar Power
• Solar Power & the Consumer Energy Market
• Industry & Growth
• Shortage of Solar Silicon
• Solar Technology
• Solar Markets: Industrialized Countries and Government Incentives
• Solar Markets: Electrification of Developing Countries
• What Investors Should Know About Solar

H. R&D Needs for Renewable Energy Technology in Industrialized Countries

I. Environmental Externalities, Market Distortions & the Economics of Renewable Energy

• Technologies
• Introduction
• Externalities
• Definition
• Externality Adders
• Life Cycle Analysis
• Defining Product Cycle' s Boundaries
• Identifying Environmental Emissions & Resulting Physical Impacts on Receptor Areas
• Cost of Damage/Cost of Abatement?
• Quantifying Physical Damage in Monetary Terms
• Costs of Electricity Generating Technologies
• Assessing the Externalities of Power Generation
• Pollution Damage from Emissions Other than CO2
• External Damage Costs of Emissions of CO2
• External Damage Costs for Electricity Production
• Uncertainty and the Marginal Costs of CO2 Emissions
• Internalizing the Externalities of Electricity Production
• Internalizing Externalities
• Policy Options for "Internalizing" Externalities
• Conclusion

J. Measuring the Contribution to the Economy of Investments in Renewable Energy

K. Future Outlook

L. Appendix

M. Glossary of Terms