The substantial decline in the cost of wind and solar generation over recent decades has significantly altered the energy landscape. With these technologies becoming economically viable, even without stringent decarbonization policies, the role of interregional transmission has become...

Renewable and solar energy technologies : energy and environmental issues / David Pimentel -- Can the Earth deliver the biomass-for-fuel we demand? / Tad W. Patzek -- A review of the economic rewards and risks of ethanol production / David Swenson -- Subsidies to ethanol in the United States /...