Technology Transfer for Renewable Energy: Overcoming Barriers in Developing Countries

✍ Scribed by Gill Wilkins

• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 256
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This text highlights the role that renewable energy can play in achieving sustainable development. It focuses on rural areas of developing countries, looking in particular at stand-alone solar home systems and grid-connected biomass cogeneration plants. It analyzes the main barriers to the successful transfer of renewable energy technology, with case studies from a range of South-East Asian, South Asian, Pacific and African countries, and explains the ways in which these obstacles can be overcome. The roles of the key players involved and how the Kyoto Protocol can facilitate the transfer in order to mitigate climate change are also discussed.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
List of figures, tables and boxes......Page 9
Abbreviations......Page 11
Foreword......Page 17
Acknowledgments......Page 19
Introduction......Page 20
1.1 Improving energy security......Page 24
1.2 Powering sustainable development......Page 36
1.3 Reducing environmental impacts......Page 50
2.1 Developments in technology transfer......Page 61
2.2 Key actors and roles......Page 75
2.3 Risks and rewards......Page 83
3.1 Key investors for renewable energy......Page 92
3.2 Investment trends......Page 109
3.3 Finance mechanisms......Page 121
4.1 Barriers......Page 139
4.2 Case studies......Page 157
4.3 Options......Page 163
5.1 Actions needed......Page 181
5.2 Engagement of key actors......Page 184
5.3 Conclusion......Page 193
A.1 Introduction to case studies......Page 196
A.2 Solar home systems case studies......Page 197
A.3 Biomass cogeneration case studies......Page 217
Annex 2 Analysis of Case Studies: Options for Overcoming Barriers......Page 235
References......Page 253

✦ Subjects

Топливно-энергетический комплекс;Альтернативная энергетика;