Innovation Diffusion and Political Control of Energy Technologies
Subtitle: A Comparison of Combined Heat and Power Generation in the UK and Germany (Contributions to Economics)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Physica-Verlag Heidelberg
Published: June 22, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9783790812053
Subjects: Electrical power industries; Fossil fuel technologies; Political economy; Power generation & distribution; Power Resources; Energy; Science; Electric Power Generation; Public Policy; Technology; Great Britain; Science/Mathematics; Germany; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Engineering - Electrical & Electronic; Economics - General; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Energie-Technologien; Energieversorgung; Energiewirtschaft; Energy Economics; Energy Supply; Energy Technologies; Diffusion of innovations; Cogeneration of electric power; Cogeneration of electric power and heat; Economic aspects; Government policy
First sentence: The process of industrialisation in the last 200 years has transformed our societies to an extent and with a speed which has never been known in the history of humankind before.