The Renewable Energy Report - 2010 is an overview of all renewable energy sources and technologies, outlining their current stages of development, their relative contributions and their advantages and disadvantages, together with their potential contributions.

Renewable energy has become a high profile issue and is a significant resource with many diverse applications. It accounts for 13% of the world’s primary energy supply and it is at the energy mainstay of large swathes of the developing world.

Renewable energy is seen by many as a sustainable, environmentally friendly energy for a polluted industrialised world, with rapidly developing new technologies. It is a partial answer to the depletion of fossil fuel reserves. However, renewable energy is not without problems and limitations and the report discusses these as well as its benefits.

- Hydro Power - Large Hydropower (LHP), Small Hydropower (SHP)

- Wind Power

- Geothermal High Temperature Electricity Generation and Low Temperature Heat

- Marine Energy - Tidal Barrage, Wave, Wave or Marine Current, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), Salinity Gradient

- Solar Photovoltaic

- Solar Thermal - CSP Electricity and Heat Collectors and Pumps, Solar Thermal Cooling

- Hybrids

- Fuel Cells

- Hydrogen

- Biomass - Bioheat, Biofuel (Ethanol, Biodiesel), Biogas (Anaerobic Digestion or Fermentation of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW), Mure/Sewage Sludge, Landfill Gas (LFG),Biodegradable waste), Biopower

- Distributed Generation

The report identifies fundamental issues with the development of these technologies.

- Cost

- Environmental compliance

- Competitive position versus clean coal technology and other

- Resources and feedstocks

The Renewable Energy Report - 2010 is an overview of all renewable energy sources and technologies, outlining their current stages of development, their relative contributions and their advantages and disadvantages, together with their potential.


Pages: 383
Publication Date: February 2010
Publisher: ABS Energy Research