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A Vibrant & Rapidly Expanding Market for Renewable Energy Technologies Has Emerged Due to Concerns That Carbon Emissions Are Contributing to Climate Change

Posted on: Tuesday, 19 December 2006, 12:01 CST

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c47314) has announced the addition of 101 Ways To Kick The Carbon Habit to their offering.

Essential research for anyone addressing the key challenges of today's energy market.

101 solutions for renewable energy providers.

Innovation in the renewable energy market.

Carbon emissions and the consumer.

As supplies of fossil fuels dwindle so prices rise and security of supply impacts on western industrial economies - which are now highly dependent on oil, gas and coal. This, and concerns that carbon emissions are contributing to climate change, have conspired to create a vibrant and rapidly expanding market for renewable energy technologies.

There are parallels between today's energy market and the early days of the Internet. Then large IT vendors, claiming the Internet would never be reliable enough to support commercial applications, largely ignored the army of innovative companies building web based software tools and services. Incumbent energy providers appear to be making a similar mistake as they jealously guard the last mile of their networks.

In the fast moving renewable energy market it is important to identify which technologies and services, as well as having a significant impact on carbon emissions, could provide the basis for viable and profitable businesses.

This report provides 101 examples of the use of renewable energy technology or emission reduction initiatives. While some of the applications are speculative, for example distributed power generation and household hydrogen refuelling stations, others, such as hot water solar systems and medium size wind turbines, have already been deployed and are earning revenue for vendors.

Who should purchase this report:

Next generation energy providers.

Power generators.

Organisations active in the renewable energy market.

Organisations with carbon reduction strategies.

Investors.

Energy strategists and policymakers.

Topics Covered: 1 Introduction - The Trouble With Carbon 2 The Trouble With Oil 3 Welcome To The Nuclear Age? 4 Innovation Within The Energy Industry 5 Why Renewable Energy Must Compete With Oil At $30 Per Barrel 6 Microgeneration 7 Energy Storage 8 Urban Heat Islands - A Problem And An Opportunity 9 Energy Production - New Model Urgently Required 10 Carbon Emissions And The Consumer 11 101 Opportunities In The Carbon Reduction Market

Summary

Carbon itself is not a problem -- after all, we are carbon based, as are trees and all other living organisms. Like trees, we are part of the carbon cycle: During our lives we collect and retain carbon and after our death we release it again. If we are buried the carbon is sequestrated while if we are cremated the carbon is released into the atmosphere. In this respect we are also little different from a tree that may fall into a swamp after it dies or may become victim of a forest fire.

Man's problem with carbon has its roots in our ability to accelerate the carbon cycle. We do this by digging up the carbon based deposits that nature has sequestrated and using them as fuel. When we burn these fuels, carbon is released into the atmosphere. The rate at which we are burning these deposits far outstrips the rate at which nature created them in the first instance or would, in normal circumstances, recycle them. This has implications for both the environment and the economic systems of the industrial world.

Companies Mentioned Include:

- Green Shift - Jet Labs - Foster Wheeler - Cleaner And Greener - Pollution Watch - Sustainable Business - Carbon Trust - Shell Springboard -- Eon - Power Pulse -- Gensler - Alcoa - US Geothermal - Protec Industries - Sharp Solar -- XsunX - Konarka -- NanoSolar - Hydrogen Solar - Solar Twin -- Powerlight -- Heliodynamics - Barnabus Energy - Solar Century - Ecotricity - Proven Energy - Quiet Revolution - Transport 2000 - Eurostar - Virgin Atlantic -- Boeing - Toyota - BMW - The Nice Car Company - ZAP World - Vectrix - Cisco - Liftshare - City Car Club - Iess - Richmond Council - The Bike League - The Hydrogen Association - Hy9 - Hydrogenics - Hy-Drive - Airproducts - Intergalactichydrogen - Ballard - Plugpower - Distributed Energy - Gridpoint - German Aerospace Centre - Arap - Ooms - Streetlight Vision - Clarum Zero Energy - Ohio Valley Creative Energy - Carbon Footprint - Target Neutral - Earth Energy - Windsave - Marley Eternit - Honda - Beck Mickle Hydro - Philips - International Paper - The Life Cycle Project - Green Living - Energy Hog - Panasonic m- Driving Ethanol - Ramsey Environmental - Second Nature - Micro CHP - AKI - Cogeneration Technologies - Verdant Power - Ocean Energy Council - Ocean Power Delivery - Blue Energy - Vedant Power - Shelburn Farms - USDA - Canadian Wind Energy Authority - Environmental Power - D1 Oil - British Sugar - Dyadic - Syntec Biofuel - VRB Power - Maxwell Technologies - Beacon Power - Sky Built - Framfuels - Fulghum Fibres

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c47314

Source: Business Wire

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