to doing business. This sub-optimal situation coexists while vast energy resources remain untapped. One solution to …

This book explores energy savings performance contracts (ESPCs) as a means of overcoming some of the more difficult … hurdles in promoting energy efficiency in public facilities. ESPCs represent a very attractive solution to many of the … hassles, while service providers can secure the off-budget project financing and be paid from the actual energy savings, thus …

desalination powered by renewable energy from economic, social, technical, and environmental viewpoints, and it reviews initiatives … attempting to make renewable energy desalination a competitively viable option. The authors also highlight the change required in …

Energy for heating, cooling, lighting, mechanical power, and various chemical processes is a fundamental requirement … for both daily life and economic development. The negative impact on the environment of current energy systems is … economic development, and through adoption of energy. Greater energy efficiency is key for shifting country development paths …

India has 150 GW of renewable energy potential, about half in the form of small hydropower, biomass, and wind and half … in solar, cogeneration, and waste-to-energy. Developing renewable energy can help India increase its energy security … Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC). The study is intended to …

, namely energy efficiency improvements and increased trade, and provides a brief assessment of technical and institutional … requirement would be well in excess of $5 billion. However, these figures reflect a significant degree of national energy self …