Introduction

Robert Y. Redlinger, Per Dannemand Andersen and Poul Erik Morthorst
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Robert Y. Redlinger: CMS Viron Energy Services
Per Dannemand Andersen: Risø National Laboratory
Poul Erik Morthorst: Risø National Laboratory

Chapter 1 in Wind Energy in the 21st Century, 2002, pp 1-5 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Renewable energy from the sun, wind and sea has long been touted as the ultimate solution to the world’s energy and environmental problems, offering the potential of virtually unlimited cheap and pollution-free energy. Initial interest in renewable energy, spurred by the oil crises of the 1970s and fears of resource depletion and political insecurity, resulted in frenetic research and development activity, impressive technological advances and bold energy policy experiments. Yet, as the 1980s passed into the 1990s, fears of energy crises faded into the past and fossil fuel prices dropped to their lowest levels ever, while renewable energy technologies remained expensive in spite of the advances made. Renewables looked like they might forever remain ‘the energy of tomorrow’.

Keywords: Renewable Energy; Wind Turbine; Wind Energy; Offshore Wind; Spot Market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230524279_1

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