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

by Larsson, Mats

• ISBN13: 9780230229198
• ISBN10: 0230229190
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Over the next few years, political and financial power will move in the direction of individuals, companies and nations that are able to use energy in a more efficient way. This book describes this challenge and presents a way forward by which we may achieve the goal of increased energy efficiency in the different areas that need to change.

Author Biography

MATS LARSSON has worked for twenty years as a business consultant with strategy development, operational efficiency, IT and change management. His experience covers industries as diverse as food and packaging, construction, services (electronic and professional) and high technology. He has worked with companies of all sizes and in all stages of development.

Since 1996, when he started writing the book The Transparent Market about e-business, Larsson has taken a particular interest in emerging business areas. He has studied 'peak oil' and related subjects since 2004 and in a number of analysis projects he has focussed on the organizational and leadership aspects of the change, made a large number of interviews and researched the status of change, relative to the ultimate need, and concluded that in order to succeed, a certain amount of managed change needs to be applied.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Executive Summary	p. 1
The Challenge	p. 11
Who Should Read This Book and Why?	p. 13
The Sustainability Challenge	p. 19
Four Scenarios for the Future	p. 27
Three Examples of Large-Scale Transformation Efforts from American Twentieth-Century History	p. 42
Gradual Change Has Caused the Need for Energy Transformation	p. 60
Thoughts on Planning and Market Economics	p. 87
Organizational Learning and Change Management	p. 105
Two Levels of Control-Executive Direction and Program and Project Management	p. 107
Tools for Program and Project Executive Direction	p. 111
The Standard Tools of Program and Project Management	p. 118
Change Tools	p. 135
New Tools for Learning and Analysis	p. 144
Financial Tools	p. 151
Change Happens in Steps	p. 157
A Step Change Model for Energy	p. 166
Change in Different Sectors of the Economy	p. 196
The Program Structure	p. 199
The Transformation Program	p. 201
Transforming Transportation	p. 208
Transforming Heating and Utilities	p. 238
Transforming Industrial Processes	p. 251
Transforming the Built Environment	p. 263
Transforming Agriculture	p. 268
Behavior and Work Life Change	p. 272
The Program - A Very Rough Outline	p. 278
Conclusion	p. 285
Notes	p. 287
References	p. 291
Index	p. 293
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