Bibliography
The Business Case for Renewable Energy Technologies
Compiled by Prof. Stephen Lawrence
Leeds School of Business
University of Colorado at Boulder
Stephen.Lawrence@colorado.edu
http://Leeds-faculty.colorado.edu/Lawrence/RETool
Introduction to Renewable Energy
 Boyle, Renewable Energy, 2nd ed, Oxford University Press, 2004 (book)
 Kammen, “Rise of Renewable Energy,” Scientific American, September 2006. (10 pages)
 Bozol, Campbell, and Lindstrand, “Global Trends in Energy,” McKinsey Quarterly, No. 1,
2007. (9 pages)
 Makower, Pernick, Wilder, Clean Energy Trends 2009, CleanEdge, March 2009. (22 pages)
 IEA, Renewables in Global Energy Supply, 2007. (34 pages)
 Boyle, “Introducing Renewable Energy,” Chapter 1 in Renewable Energy, 2nd ed, Oxford
University Press, 2004
 Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, www.ren21.net
Energy Fundamentals
 Lancaster, “Some Energy Fundamentals,” The Blatant Opportunist 71, 2002. (7 pages)
 US Energy Flow Trends – 2002, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, 2004. (1 page)
 Herman, Earth’s Exergy Resources, slides, GCEP Research Symposium, 2006. (49 pages)
 Herman, “Quantifying Global Exergy Resources,” Energy 31, 2006. (18 pages)
 “Basics of Energy and Its Various Forms,” Chapter 2 in Book I - General Aspect of Energy
Management and Energy Audit, Bureau of Energy Efficiency, India, 2009. (19 pages)
Energy Economics
 “Global Market Overview,” Chapters 1-3 in Renewables 2007: Global Status Report,
Renewable Energy Policy Network for the 21st Century, www.ren21.net. (17 pages)
 Pater, A Framework for Evaluating the Total Value Proposition of Clean Energy Technologies,
NREL Technical Report NREL/TP-620-38957, February 2006. (83 pages)
 IEA, Experience Curves for Energy Technology Policy, OECD/IEA 2000 (133 pages)
Renewable Energy Policy
 “Policy Landscape,” Chapter 4 in Renewables 2007: Global Status Report, Renewable Energy
Policy Network for the 21st Century, www.ren21.net. (13 pages)
 Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency, www.dsireusa.org
Renewable Energy Project Financing
 Woodroof, “Financing Energy Management Projects,” Chapter 2 in Energy Project Financing,
Thumann and Woodroof (eds.), CRC Press, 2009. (65 pages)
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Leeds School of Business – CU Boulder
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The Business Case for Wind Energy
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20% Wind by 2030, Executive Summary, DOE/GO-102009-2578, May 2009
IEA, Wind Annual Report, Executive Summary, International Energy Assoc, 2007
NREL, Wind Energy Myths, DOE/GO-102005-2137, May 2005
American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), www.AWEA.org
Hamm, “Wind: The Power, the Promise, the Business,” Business Week, 3 July 2009
AWEA, Ten Steps for Building a Wind Farm, www.awea.org
Windustry, www.windustry.org
Wizelius, Developing Wind Power Projects, Earthscan, 2009 (book)
The Business Case for Solar PV Energy
 Lorenz, Pinner, & Seitz, “Economics of Solar Power,” McKinsey Quarterly, June 2009
 Zweibel, Mason, & Fthenakis, “A Solar Grand Plan,” Scientific American, January 2009
 Borenstein, The Market Value and Cost of Solar Photovoltaic Energy Production, working
paper CSEM WP 176, Center for the Study of Energy Needs, 2009. (38 pages)
 American Solar Energy Society, www.ASES.org
The Business Case for Solar Thermal Energy
 Philibert, The Present and Future Use of Solar Thermal Energy as a Primary Source of Energy,
IEA 2005
 NREL, Parabolic Trough Solar Thermal Electric Power Plants, DOE/GO-102006-2339,
July 2007
 European Solar Thermal Energy Association (ESTELA), www.estelasolar.eu
 “What’s Raining on Solar’s Parade?” Business Week Online, Feb 6, 2007. (1 page)
 Smith, “Solar’s Day in the Sun,” The Wall Street Journal, Nov 17, 2005. (2 pages)
 Philibert, Barriers to Technology Diffusion: The Case of Solar Thermal Technologies, report
COM/ENV/EPOC/IEA/SLT(2006)9, IEA, 2006. (29 pages)
 Earth2tech blog, First Solar Reaches Grid Parity, Earth2Tech.com/2009/12/21/report-firstsolar-reaches-grid-parity/
 SolarBuzz website, www.SolarBuzz.com
 Solar Energy Industries Association, www.SEIA.org
The Business Case for Geothermal Energy
 Slack, U.S. Geothermal Power Production and Development Update, Geothermal Energy
Association, August 2009
 Dickson & Fanelli, What is Geothermal Energy, Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, CNR ,
Pisa, Italy, February 2004
 Geothermal Energy Association, www.geo-energy.org
Energy Transmission Economics
 DOE, The Electricity Delivery System, Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, Feb 2006
 Talbot, “Lifeline for Renewable Power,” Technology Review, Jan/Feb 2009
 Grant, Starr, & Overbye, “A Power Grid for the Hydrogen Economy,” Scientific American, July 2006
 Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability, www.oe.energy.gov
 Gridworks, www.energetics.com/gridworks/index.html
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Spring 2009
The Business Case for Distributed Generation
 Distributed Generation, Institution of Engineering & Technology, 2006. (6 pages)
 Casten & Downes, “The Case for Decentralized Generation of Electricity,” Skeptical Inquirer
29(1), Jan/Feb 2005. (14 pages)
 Kreider & Curtis, “Distributed Electrical Generation Technologies and their Economic
Assessment,” ASHRAE Transactions 106(1), 2000. (10 pages)
 Boyle, “Integration,” Chapter 10 in Renewable Energy, 2nd ed, Oxford University Press, 2004.
The Business Case for Energy Storage
 Naughton, “Now we are cooking with … batteries,” Newsweek, 1 Dec 2009. (3 pages)
 Makansi &Abboud, Energy Storage: The Missing Link in the Electricity Value Chain, Energy
Storage Council, May 2002. (23 pages)
 Sullivan, Short, & Blair, Modeling the Benefits of Storage Technologies to Wind Power, NREL,
Conference paper NREL/CP-670-43510, 2009.
 Electricity Storage Association, www.electricitystorage.org
 Energy Storage Council, www.energystoragecouncil.org
 NREL Energy Storage, www.nrel.gov/vehiclesandfuels/energystorage
The Business Case for Smart Grids
 Siddiqui, The Green Grid, EPRI Technical Update Report 1016905, May 2009
 Fairley, “A Power Grid Smartens Up,” Technology Review, 20 March 2009
 DOE, Smart Grid: An Introduction, US Dept. of Energy, DOE Contract DE-AC26-04NT41817,
2009
 Demand Response and Smart Grid Coalition, www.drsgcoalition.org
The Business Case for Biofuels – Overview
 BioFuel Production, IEA Energy Technology Essentials, ETE02, Jan 2007. (4 pages)
 Caesar, Reise, & Seitz, “Betting on Biofuels,” McKinsey Quarterly (2), 2007. (11 pages)
 Singer, “Biofuels Beyond Corn,” Technology Review, 21 Jun 2007. (2 pages)
 Sustainable Biofuels: Prospects and Challenges, The Royal Society, January 2009 (90 pages)
 Boyle, “Bioenergy,” Chapter 4 in Renewable Energy, 2nd ed, Oxford University Press, 2004.
 Alternative Energy Price Report, http://www.afdc.energy.gov/afdc/price_report.html,
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) – monthly.
 BioEnergy Wiki – www.bioenergywiki.net
The Business Case for Alcohol Fuels
 Wald, “Is Ethanol for the Long Haul?” Scientific American, January 2007. (8 pages)
 Hahn & Cecot, The Benefits and Costs of Ethanol, working paper 07-15, AEI-Brookings Joint
Center for Regulatory Studies, November 2007. (32 pages)
 Wallace, “Ethanol: A Tragedy in 3 Acts,” Business Week, April 26, 2006. (3 pages)
 “Alcohol Fuel,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_fuel
 Renewable Fuels Association, www.ethanolrfa.org
 American Coalition for Ethanol, www.ethanol.org
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Leeds School of Business – CU Boulder
Spring 2009
The Business Case for BioDiesel
 Ashley, “Diesels Come Clean,” Scientific American, March 2007. (8 pages)
 Fehrenbacher, “15 Algae Startups Bringing Pond Scum to Fuel Tanks, earth2tech website,
March 27, 2009. (3 pages)
 Renner, “Green Gold in a Shrub,” Scientific America, June 2007. (2 pages)
 “Biodiesel,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel
 “Algae Fuel,” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae_fuel
 National Biodiesel Board, www.nbb.org
Commercializing Biofuels
 Khosla, Biofuels Trajectory for Success, 2009. (38 pages)
 Dikeman, Cleantech Venture Capitalists Beware, blog of 13-Oct-2009. (2 pages)
 “Grow your Own,” Economist Magazine, 19 June 2009. (2 pages)
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NREL, The Biomass Economy, NREL/JA-810-31967, July 2002
The Business Case for Fuel Cells
 DOE, Fuel Cell Overview, 2007. (2 pages)
 IEA, Fuel Cells, ETE06, April 2007. (4 pages)
 Ashley, “On the Road to Fuel Cell Cars,” Scientific American, March 2005. (9 pages)
 Carlson, Kopf, Sinha, Sriramulu, & Yang, Cost Analysis of PEM Fuel Cell, NREL/SR-560-39104,
2005. (109 pages)
The Business Case for Hydrogen
 IEA, Hydrogen Production and Distribution, ETE05, April 2007. (4 pages)
 Ogden, “High Hopes for Hydrogen,” Scientific American, September 2006. (8 pages)
 Bossel, Eliasson, & Taylor, The Future of the Hydrogen Economy: Bright or Bleak? Fuel Cell
Seminar, November 2003. (39 pages)
The Business Case for Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles
 Sanna, “Driving the Solution,” EPRI Solution, Fall 2005. (10 pages)
 Romm & Frank, “Hybrid Vehicles Gain Traction,” Scientific American, April 2007. (8 pages)
 Lamoine, Kammen, & Farrell, “An Innovation and Policy Agenda for Commercially Viable
Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles,” Environmental Research Letters 3, 2009. (11 pages)
 Simpson, Cost-Benefit Analysis of Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Technology, NREL/CP-54040485, November 2006. (15 pages)
The Business Case for Energy Efficiency
 Jochem, “An Efficient Solution,” Scientific American, September 2006. (4 pages)
 Farrell, Nyquist, Rogers, “Making the Most of the World’s Energy Resources,” McKinsey
Quarterly (1), 2007. (11 pages)
 Farrell, Nyquist, Rogers, “Curbing the Growth of Global Energy Demand,” McKinsey
Quarterly, web exclusive, July 2007. (12 pages)
 Jacobs, Technologies for Transportation Efficiency, July 2007. (45 pages)
 Ashley, “Diesels Come Clean,” Scientific American, March 2007. (8 pages)
 Heywood, “Fueling our Transportation Future,” Scientific American, September 2006. (4
pages)
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