The regulation and policy of Latin American energy transitions / edited by Lucas Noura Guimarães.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Guimarães, Lucas Noura de Moraes Rêgo, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy policy--Latin America.

Energy policy.

Renewable energy sources--Government policy.

Renewable energy sources.

Latin America.

Renewable energy sources--Government policy--Latin America.

Energy development--Environmental aspects.

Energy development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxviii, 357 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Cambridge, MA : Elsevier, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Part 1. Changing the energy landscape : policy and economic issues

1. Is there a Latin American electricity transition? A snapshot of intraregional differences / Lucas Noura Guimarães

2. Using market mechanisms for a reliable energy transition in Latin America / Alexandre Viana

3. Assessing the macroeconomic effects of sustainable energy transitions in Costa Rica and Chile : a multisectoral balance-of-payments-constrained growth approach / Francisco Ebeling

4. Energy (and climate) challenges in South America : what planning for what transition? / Thauan Santos and Ignacio Sabbatella

5. Prompting an energy transition : how policy entrepreneurs passed Peru's first renewable energy legislation for the grid / Hai-vu Phan

6. The challenges and contradictions of Peru's Proyecto Masivo de Energía Solar / Dustin Welch García

Part 2. Energy transition taking shape : regulatory issues

7. The prosumer legal protection in Latin America : a requirement for an energy transition / Matheus Linck Bassani

8. Challenges of South American energy transition : energy efficiency and distributed generation / Maria Alejandra Ise, Silvina Cecilia Carrizo, and Marie Forget

9. Urban microgrids : benefits, challenges, and business models / Marco Aurelia Lenzi Castro

10. Regulatory aspects of energy efficiency in Uruguay / Ana Laura Rodríguez D'Espada

11. The Ecuadorian energy matrix : from a fossil-fuel dependency to a renewable production / Pablo Morales and Edisson Morales

12. Environmental impact assessment and public participation of geothermal energy projects : the cases of Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, and Mexico / Miguel Saldivia Olave and Sofía Vargas-Payera

13. Competitive renewables as the key to energy transition ; RenovaBio : the Brazilian biofuel regulation / Danielle Mendes Thame Denny

14. The role and impacts of policies in hampering the biogas transition in Brazil / Luiz Gustavo Silva de Oliveira

Part 3. Boosting energy transition : socio-technical issues

15. Foresight for Chile's energy transition - unleashing societal transformations / Joni Karjalainen, Noora Vähäkari and Sirkka Heinonen

16. Integrating social and justice dimensions to energy transitions : the case of Mexico / Carlos Tornel

17. The role of social resistance in shaping energy transition policy in Mexico : the case of wind power in Oaxaca / Adolfo Mejía-Montero, Lourdes Alonso-Serva and Carlo Altamirano-Allende

18. Energy transition in isolated communities of the Brazilian Amazon / Antonella Mazzone

19. An inclusive and participative model for energy transition in Latin America : the case of Chilean Generación Comunitaria / Francisco Merino, Adolfo Mejía Montero and Cecilia Dastres.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

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Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.

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ebook version :

ISBN:

9780128195659

0128195657

Publisher Number:

99984119662

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