Description:
Low Carbon Energy Technologies for Sustainable Energy Systems examines, investigates, and integrates current research aimed at operationalizing low carbon technologies within complex transitioning energy economies. Scholarly research has traditionally focused on the technical aspects of exploitation, R&D, operation, infrastructure, and decommissioning, while approaches which can realistically inform their reception and scale-up across real societies and real markets are piecemeal and isolated in separate literatures. Addressing both the technical foundations of each technology together with the sociotechnical ways in which they are spread in markets and societies, this work integrates the technoeconomic assessment of low carbon technologies with direct discussion on legislative and regulatory policies in energy markets. Chapters address issues, such as social acceptance, consumer awareness, environmental valuation systems, and the circular economy, as low carbon technologies expand into energy systems sustainability, sensitivity, and stability. This collective research work is relevant to both researchers and practitioners working in sustainable energy systems. The combination of these features makes it a timely book that is useful and attractive to university students, researchers, academia, and public or private energy policy makers.
Brief description:
Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos is a Teaching and Research Associate at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. He holds 2 PhDs, in Low Carbon Economy (DUTH, 2022, Greece) and in Chemical Engineering (NTUA, 2005, Greece). He (co)authored more than 140 papers at 70 journals, 30 invited book chapters, and 30 papers at conferences, all received more than 6000 citations. He is also the reviewer of more than 7000 manuscripts at more than 500 journals. He has been also listed among the top 2% of the world's most cited researchers, both for the single successive five years 2020-2024 and for the whole career (last 28 years-long) 1996-2024, based on the science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators by Elsevier and Stanford University. His research interests are engineering, environmental systems and remediation, energy, and
renewable energy sources