The Power Production Paradox: Revealing the Socio-Technical Impediments to Distributed Generation Technologies

The Power Production Paradox: Revealing the Socio-Technical Impediments to Distributed Generation Technologies

Dramatic improvements in renewable energy and small-scale distributed generation (DG) technologies have been made in the last twenty years. Nevertheless, they remain underutilized in the American electric utility system. Despite the immense environmental, technical, and financial promise of renewa...

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Main Author: Sovacool, Benjamin K.
Other Authors: Science and Technology Studies
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
Subjects:
Energy Policy
Renewable Energy
Distributed Generation
Technological Systems
Sociology of Technology
History of Technology
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27058
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04202006-172936/

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http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27058
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04202006-172936/

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