Technological Learning in the Energy Sector: Lessons for Policy, Industry, and Science

摘要

This timely volume takes up one of the most important topics in energy policy today. If the world is to avoid the worst impacts of global warming without unduly limiting economic growth, technologies for low-carbon energy supply and more efficient energy use need to become cheaper. One of the primary means for this cost reduction to occur is through learning. The more experience that producers and users have with particular technologies, the more their costs tend to drop. But how much? How fast? And, perhaps, most important of all, why?