Global Energy Transformation: Four Necessary Steps to Make Clean Energy the Next Success Story

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Executive Summary....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Who Should Read This Book and Why?....Pages 13-18
The Sustainability Challenge....Pages 19-26
Four Scenarios for the Future....Pages 27-41
Three Examples of Large-Scale Transformation Efforts from American Twentieth-Century History....Pages 42-59
Gradual Change Has Caused the Need for Energy Transformation....Pages 60-86
Thoughts on Planning and Market Economics....Pages 87-103
Front Matter....Pages 105-106
Two Levels of Control — Executive Direction and Program and Project Management....Pages 107-110
Tools for Program and Project Executive Direction....Pages 111-117
The Standard Tools of Program and Project Management....Pages 118-134
Change Tools....Pages 135-143
New Tools for Learning and Analysis....Pages 144-150
Financial Tools....Pages 151-156
Change Happens in Steps....Pages 157-165
A Step Change Model for Energy....Pages 166-195
Change in Different Sectors of the Economy....Pages 196-197
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
The Transformation Program....Pages 201-207
Transforming Transportation....Pages 208-237
Transforming Heating and Utilities....Pages 238-250
Transforming Industrial Processes....Pages 251-262
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Transforming the Built Environment....Pages 263-267
Transforming Agriculture....Pages 268-271
Behavior and Work Life Change....Pages 272-277
The Program — A Very Rough Outline....Pages 278-284
Conclusion....Pages 285-286
Back Matter....Pages 287-306