Preface: The Future of Energy -- Acknowledgments -- I The Inevitability of Solar Energy -- 1 A New Path on the Horizon -- II Past to the Present -- 2 A Brief History of Energy -- 3 An Unsustainable Status Quo -- 4 The Field of Alternatives -- 5 Solar Energy -- III Future Transformations -- 6 Modern Electric Utility Economics -- 7 The Emergence of Distributed Economics -- 8 Solar Electricity in the Real World -- IV A Promising Destination -- 9 Tools for Acceleration -- 10 Facing the Inevitable -- Appendix: Energy and Electricity Measurements -- Notes -- Suggested Readings -- Credits -- Index.