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Energy technology perspectives 2012 : pathways to a clean energy system.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- International Energy Agency, Corporate Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Power resources.
- Energy industries--Technological innovations.
- Energy industries.
- Energy development.
- Energy policy.
- Power resources--Environmental aspects.
- Energy industries--Environmental aspects.
- Energy development--Environmental aspects.
- Energy policy--Environmental aspects.
- Power resources--Forecasting.
- Energy industries--Forecasting.
- Energy development--Forecasting.
- Atmospheric carbon dioxide--Environmental aspects.
- Atmospheric carbon dioxide.
- Greenhouse gas mitigation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (690 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Paris : OECD/IEA, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Energy Technology Perspectives (ETP) is the International Energy Agency's most ambitious publication on energy technology. It demonstrates how technologies - from electric vehicles to smart grids-- can make a decisive difference in limiting climate change and enhancing energy security. ETP 2012 presents detailed scenarios and strategies to 2050. It is an indispensible guide for decision makers on energy trends and what needs to be done to build a clean, secure and competitive energy future. ETP 2012 shows: (i) Current progress on clean energy deployment, and what can be done to accelerate; (ii) How energy security and low carbon energy are linked; (iii) How energy systems will become more complex in the future, why systems integration is beneficial and how it can be achieved; (iv) How demand for heating and cooling will evolve dramatically and which solutions will satisfy it; (v) Why flexible electricity systems are increasingly important, and how a system with smarter grids, energy storage and flexible generation can work; (vi) Why hydrogen could play a big role in the energy system of the future; (vii) Why fossil fuels will not disappear but will see their roles change, and what it means for the energy system as a whole. (viii) What is needed to realise the potential of carbon capture and storage (CCS). (ix) Whether available technologies can allow the world to have zero energy related emissions by 2075 - which seems a necessary condition for the world to meet the 2êC target.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Vision, status and tools for the transition
- pt. 2. Energy systems
- pt. 3. Fossil fuels and CCS
- pt. 4. Scenarios and technology roadmaps.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 92-64-17489-3
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