Spain's Photovoltaic Revolution: The Energy Return on Investment (SpringerBriefs in Energy)
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (738 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 144199436X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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ChemSciGuy said The title doesn't do this book justice. Energy return looms large as we grope for ways to wean ourselves from fossil fuels. This book has got to be the definitive reference on solar photovoltaic power. It is a detailed and careful analysis. The book is bursting with interesting data and observations. Hall is certainly the world's expert on EROI and this is a nice addition to his body of work. That work concludes that energy returns likely in the range of 8 or so are really required for a sustainable energy system. Sadly, by a couple methods of analysis the Spanish solar experience points to an EROI of less than "The title doesn't do this book justice" according to ChemSciGuy. Energy return looms large as we grope for ways to wean ourselves from fossil fuels. This book has got to be the definitive reference on solar photovoltaic power. It is a detailed and careful analysis. The book is bursting with interesting data and observations. Hall is certainly the world's expert on EROI and this is a nice addition to his body of work. That work concludes that energy returns likely in the range of 8 or so are really required for a sustainable energy system. Sadly, by a couple methods of analysis the Spanish solar experience points to an EROI of less than 2.5.. .5.. "Tilting at Windmills, Spain's disastrous attempt to replace fossil fuels with Solar Photovoltaics" according to Alice Friedemann. This is the first time an estimate of Energy Returned on Energy Invested (EROI) of solar Photovoltaics (PV) has been based on real data from the sunniest European country, with accurate measures of generated energy from over 50,000 installations using several years of real-life data from optimized, efficient, multi-megawatt and well oriented facilities.Other life cycle and energy payback time analyses used models that left out dozens of energy inputs, leading to overestimates of energy such as payback time of 1-2 years (Fthenakis), EROI 8.Tilting at Windmills, Spain's disastrous attempt to replace fossil fuels with Solar Photovoltaics This is the first time an estimate of Energy Returned on Energy Invested (EROI) of solar Photovoltaics (PV) has been based on real data from the sunniest European country, with accurate measures of generated energy from over 50,000 installations using several years of real-life data from optimized, efficient, multi-megawatt and well oriented facilities.Other life cycle and energy payback time analyses used models that left out dozens of energy inputs, leading to overestimates of energy such as payback time of 1-2 years (Fthenakis), EROI 8.3 (Bankier), and EROI of 5.9 to 11.8 (Raugei et al).Prieto and Hall added dozens of energy inputs mi. (Bankier), and EROI of 5.9 to 11.8 (Raugei et al).Prieto and Hall added dozens of energy inputs mi. News Mònica Bibiana Berdugo Moreno This book presents, objectively, EROI calculation of the Photovoltaic energy generation system in a case well supported in data.Even though there is not an explicit reference of the lack of considering energy consumption implications previous to make political decisions in the book, interested readers would be also interested in look for related literature. Energy politics have strong implications, but curiously, in most (if not all, I do not know) energy is not taken in account in the measure that this issue should be treated.
Since 2004, Pedro Prieto has led several solar photovoltaic projects in Spain, a leading world country in solar PV penetration, covering today about 2.2 percent of the total national electric demand, with about 3,750 MW installed base, of which he partially owns and completely manages a 1 MW modern feed-in plant in operation. He has worked in the telecom sector for 30 years as development engineer and professor in the ITT R&D Labs, commercial director, export director and vicepresi
This book offers the first bulk analysis of a large-scale, real-world deployment of 3.5 GW of installed, grid-connected solar plants in Spain, including all of the factors that limited and adjusted the real electricity output through one full-year cycle.
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under Dr. He is best known for his development of the concept of EROI, or energy return on investment, which is an examination of how organisms, including humans, invest energy into obtaining additional energy to improve biotic or social fitness. He has applied these approaches to carbon balance, fish migrations, tropical land use change and the extraction of petroleum and other fuels in both natural and human-dominated ecosystems. Prieto is a Telecom Technical Engineer. Hall is author, coauthor or editor of eight 8 books and 260 scholarly articles that have appeared in Science, Nature, BioScience, American Scientist and other scientific journals. H.T. About the AuthorPedro A. Since 2004, Pedro Prieto has led several solar photovoltaic pr