Rahmatallah Poudineh - Böcker

This book explores the changing economics, regulations, and operations of electricity distribution networks. This book aims to provide insights into the ways which decarbonisation, decentralisation and digitalisation trends in the electricity sector will eventually shape future of distribution grids.

Is clean hydrogen truly transformative for decarbonisation, or simply the latest energy hype? This book offers a clear, evidence-based examination of hydrogen’s real role in the global drive for decarbonisation. It begins by explaining why hydrogen matters for climate policy and where electrification alone falls short. The early chapters assess hydrogen production technologies and costs, separating realistic pathways from overly optimistic assumptions. The book then explores policy design, investment incentives, and the regulation of transport, trade, and storage infrastructure. Later chapters analyse hydrogen’s potential across key sectors, including power generation, transport, steel, cement, chemicals, and high-temperature industrial processes. The concluding section brings these insights together, highlighting trade-offs, system integration challenges, and lessons for policymakers.Written for policymakers, industry leaders, investors, and researchers, this book shows why clean hydrogen is important for a credible, cost-effective energy transition, even if it will not become the “next oil”.

The book provides an overview of the policy frameworks that have been employed to support offshore wind power, and their efficacy in nurturing sustainable cost reductions across the industry.A growing number of countries are increasingly receptive to the prospect of implementing policies to support the deployment of large-scale renewable energy. The promise of carbon-free, utility-scale power generation from offshore wind farms has incentivised and nurtured offshore wind development. However, the high relative costs of deploying offshore wind compared to alternatives have a history of making it political divisive pursuit. At the same time when many countries are just beginning to explore the possibility of developing an offshore wind industry, many other countries are experiencing what can be described as policy fatigue over supporting offshore wind. If cost reductions are not proven sustainable by the early 2020’s, then government support for offshore wind may start to erode and even completely evaporate in several key offshore wind markets – with global repercussions. This book will provide the reader with a clear picture of the current status and future challenges of the offshore wind industry globally, incorporating both a technical analysis of the cost drivers as well as a detailed analysis of policy design and economics of industry.