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Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon (Kobo eBook)

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Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon introduces financial concepts through a lively history of the solar industry, and cuts through the main areas of mystique and misinformation about solar technology and projects. With extensive experience in answering questions from clients in the solar, finance and energy industries, Chase focuses on the practical and financial aspects of solar power, making this book suitable for those wanting to work in clean energy or who have a strong interest in the subject, particularly those without a business background.

Since the first edition was published in 2019, solar capacity has only grown bigger and cheaper, opening up new markets. Most significantly, Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, igniting an energy crisis across the world which made countries glad of any renewable energy capacity they had built, as well as amplifying calls for a diversified and resilient global supply chain for renewable energy components. This second edition of Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon is considerably more detailed and optimistic about batteries and hydrogen. It extensively updates readers on the rapidly-changing price and energy landscape, the latest industry thinking on the effects of large volumes of renewable energy on the grid and the path to deep decarbonisation of human civilisation.

Contents:

  • About the Author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Solar Technologies: The Basics
  • Startups
  • Startups: Case Study of a Startup (BloombergNEF)
  • Timeline of Relevant Milestones for Solar
  • 2005–2008: The First Big Solar, Supply Constraints
  • The Magic of the Experience Curve
  • September 29, 2008: When the Solar Boom Went Bust
  • How Markets Set Power Prices
  • Forecasting Methods and Modelling Something That Has Never Happened Before
  • Networking and Other Stuff Not Taught at State Schools
  • Solar After the 2008 Crash: Finding a New Normal
  • Solar Failures 2009–2013: Case Studies
  • Project Finance and Calculating the Cost of Energy
  • 2014 and 2015: Solar Auctions, Auto-Consumption, and Sun Taxes
  • 2016–2021: The Early Days of Cheap Photovoltaics
  • Intermittency, Batteries and Hydrogen
  • Technology Focus: Solar Thermal Electricity Generation
  • Technology Focus: Photovoltaics
  • Operating Solar Plants
  • 2022: Energy Is Scarce Again
  • Trade Wars
  • Will Offgrid Solar Leapfrog in the Developing World?
  • Can Solar Save the World?
  • What Next for Solar?
  • References
  • Key Terminology
  • Index

Readership: Undergraduate and graduate students in science, engineering, maths and humanities who want to know more about the renewable energy industry as a business to work in. Members of the public who have an interest in the energy transition.
Key Features:

  • PV Magazine described the first edition as "valuable and entertaining
  • Aims to help people understand the increasing relevance of solar energy, technologies that add flexibility to the grid and the energy transition on a practical level, whether they want to work in it or are simply interested
  • Focuses on the practical and financial aspects, and takes a longer view on what approaches have worked so far and what have not
  • Contains input from interviews with industry luminaries such as Professor Martin Green (the "father of Modern Photovoltaics"), Professor Jenny Nelson (author of influential textbook The Physics of Solar Cells) and Jigar Shah, Director of the US Loan Programs Office
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781800614802
Publisher: WSPC (EUROPE)
Publication Date: December 12th, 2023
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