Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Changing World -- 1.2 Why Another Book on 100% Renewables? -- 2 Analysis of Today's Energy Situation -- 2.1 Basic Energy Terms -- 2.2 Global Energy Situation -- 2.3 Energy Sectors -- 2.4 Challenges for Fossil Fuels -- 2.4.1 Finiteness of Fossil Fuels Leading to the Peak of Oil and Gas -- 2.4.2 Climate Change Due to Green House Gases - Best Understood by a Journey Through Our Earth's History From Its Origin Until Today -- 2.5 Problems with Nuclear Energy -- 3 The Importance of Energy Efficiency Measures -- 3.1 Traditional Extrapolation of Future Energy Demands or Alternatively "The Same or with Renewables Even Better Quality of Life with Much Less Energy" -- 3.2 Decrease in End Energy Needs with a "Better Quality of Life" -- 3.2.1 Future Lighting: Energy Saving and Better Service -- 3.2.2 Electro-Mobility: Powerful and Halving Consumption (But Only If Electricity Comes From Renewables) -- 3.2.3 Comfortable Houses: Properly Insulated, Facing South (In The Northern Hemisphere) and Producing More Energy than Needed -- 3.3 Today's Energy Needs with Known Energy Efficiency Measures -- 3.4 Support Mechanisms to Facilitate New Products: Ban The Old or Facilitate The New Ones -- 4 Overview of the Most Important Renewable Energy Technologies -- 4.1 Basics About the Potential of Various Renewable Technologies -- 4.2 Wind Energy -- 4.3 Solar Thermal Collectors and Concentrators -- 4.3.1 Historical Development -- 4.3.2 Solar Thermal Collectors -- 4.3.3 Solar Thermal Concentrating Systems for Electricity Production -- 4.4 Bioenergy: Biomass and Fuel -- 4.5 Photovoltaics -- 4.6 Other Renewable Technologies -- 4.6.1 Hydropower -- 4.6.2 Ocean Energy (Wave and Tidal) -- 4.6.3 Geothermal Energy -- 4.6.4 Heat Pump.

5 PV Market Development -- 5.1 Strategic and Consumer Goods in Society and Why Strategic Ones Need Initial Support -- 5.1.1 Consumer and Strategic Goods - a Message to Economists -- 5.1.2 Market Pull Versus Technology Push - What is the Best Support Program? -- 5.2 PV Applications and History -- 5.3 Historical PV Market Development -- 5.4 Feed-in Tariffs - Sustainable Versus Boom and Bust Market Growth -- 5.5 PV Market Development Towards 2020 -- 5.5.1 Bottom-up Epia Market Forecast (2013 to 2017) -- 5.5.2 Top-down Epia Market Forecast ("Set for 2020") -- 5.6 Total Budget for Feed-in Tariff Support as Positive Investment for National Economies and Merit Order Effects for Electricity Customers -- 5.7 New Electricity Market Design for Increasing Numbers of Variable Renewable Energy Systems -- 5.8 Developments for the Future Energy Infrastructure -- 5.8.1 Smart Grids as the Future Low Voltage Grid, Distribution and Super Grids -- 5.8.2 Supporting Measures for the Future Energy Infrastructure -- 6 PV Value Chain and Technology -- 6.1 Basics of Solar Radiation and Conversion in PV Cells -- 6.2 Value Chain for Crystalline Silicon PV Systems -- 6.2.1 Poly Silicon -- 6.2.2 Crystal Making and Wafer Production -- 6.2.3 Crystalline Silicon Wafer Based Solar Cells -- 6.2.4 Stringing and Module Making -- 6.3 Value Chain for Thin-Film Technologies -- 6.4 Concentrated PV (CPV) and III-V Compound Solar Cells -- 6.5 New Technologies (Dye, OPV, and Novel Concepts) -- 6.6 Other Cost Components for PV Systems -- 6.6.1 DC - AC Inverters -- 6.6.2 BOS - Balance of Systems -- 6.7 Marimekko Plot for PV Systems and Summary Chart for Cell Efficiencies -- 7 The Astonishing Predictive Power of Price Experience Curves -- 7.1 Basics about Price Experience Curves -- 7.2 Relevant Price Experience Curves Comparable to PV -- 7.3 Lesson Learned from PECs Discussed.

7.4 Price Experience Curve for PV Modules -- 7.4.1 Historical Development -- 7.4.2 Differentiated PEC for c-Si and Thin-Film Products -- 7.4.3 PV Systems Analysis -- 7.5 Price Experience Curve for DC/AC inverters -- 7.6 Price Experience Curve for Wind Energy and Other Relevant Products for a 100% Renewable World -- 8 Future Technology Development -- 8.1 General Remarks on Future Technology Developments -- 8.2 Photovoltaics -- 8.2.1 PV Product Portfolio -- 8.2.2 System Price Development -- 8.3 Wind Energy -- 8.4 Solar Thermal -- 8.5 Other Renewables -- 8.6 Other System Components -- 8.6.1 Storage -- 8.6.2 Transmission -- 8.6.3 System Services -- 8.7 Importance of the Renewable Energy Portfolio - in Particular Solar and Wind -- 9 Future Energy Projections - The 150 Peta-Watt-hour Challenge -- 9.1 Historical Development -- 9.2 Some Future Projections and Scenarios by Others -- 9.2.1 Global Projections -- 9.2.2 Local Scenarios -- 9.3 Global Energy Scenarios and Market Development of the Major Renewables from the Author's Point of View -- 9.3.1 Simplified Projection for the Overall Picture -- 9.3.2 Development of PV Market -- 9.3.3 Industrial and Company Policy Related Aspects for PV Industry -- 9.3.4 CPV (Concentrated PV)/CSP (Concentrated Solar Power) -- 9.3.5 Wind -- 9.3.6 Solar Thermal -- 9.3.7 Development of the Other Renewable Sources -- 10 Likelihood of and Timeline for a World Powered by 100% Renewable Energy -- 10.1 Likelihood of a 100% Renewable World -- 10.2 Global Network or Local Autonomy? -- 10.2.1 The Concept of a Worldwide Super Grid Versus the Hydrogen Economy -- 10.2.2 New Horizons with Optimizing Regional 100% Renewable Energy Supply -- 10.2.3 Local Autonomy: Silver Bullet for the Decentralized Private and SME Sector Plus the Centralized Energy Intensive Industry -- 10.3 Timeline for a 100% Renewable World.

11 Conclusion: The 100% Renewable Energy Puzzle -- References -- Index.