New Technologies for Energy Efficiency

Description

The needs of the new economy have had the effect of stressing the existing energy infrastructure to the point of crisis. The current regulatory system tends to encourage the building of large power plants with long lead times. This important book examines the full scope of new technologies available to address this crisis of electricity supply now by reducing dependency on the power grid. The author details the tools and technologies available for incorporating smaller, clean, more efficient energy-generating technologies such as small-scale cogeneration, fuel cells, and natural gas distributed generation into your energy management plan. He thoroughly examines the role of new technologies in reducing operating costs and developing more innovative and practical approaches to energy management, including implementing alternative energy programs, monitoring rates and policy, managing power quality, exploring cost-effective power generation solutions, utilizing cost-effective energy services, benefitting from information monitoring and diagnostic systems, assessing energy storage options, integrating lighting and cooling systems, and more.

First Sentence

In California, rolling blackouts have darkened some of the richest cropland, most complex high-tech factories and busiest streets in America.

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Other Editions

• New Technologies for Energy EfficiencyHardcoverFairmont Press2002-11-01
• New Technologies for Energy EfficiencyEBookMarcel Dekker, Inc.2003
• New Technologies for Energy EfficiencyPaperbackFairmont Press2002-11-01