Electricity shortage has become a major challenge to continued economic growth in Bangladesh. The country is growing in terms of GDP growth at a rate of 7% a year. Bangladesh is expected to move towards 23rd position globally by 2050 from its position 31 in 2014, in terms of GDP at purchasing...

Front Cover -- Urban Energy Transition: Renewable Strategies for Cities and Regions -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributor Biographies -- Introduction: The Great Transformation: Cities and Regions Embracing Renewable Energy -- Synopsis of the Book and Its chapters -- References -- Section 1:...

"We have spent the last two centuries building a civilization on coal and the last century building it bigger still on oil. Fossil fuels have been the wellspring of our complex, glorious modern world, but they are about to run out. By the end of the 21st century, our oil and natural gas supplies...