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Foreword; TABLE OF CONTENTS; List of Figures and Tables Figures; Tables; Chapter 1: Riding on the Experience Curve; Price for an Emerging Technology; Figure 1.1 Experience Curve for PV Modules, 1976-1992; Figure 1.2 Danish Wind Turbines, 1982-1997; Figure 1.3 Distribution of Progress Ratios; Assessi...

An Input-Output Model of LearningFigure 2.1 Basic Model for a Learning System; Influencing the Learning System: Public R&D and DeploymentPolicies; Figure 2.2 Influences on the Learning System from PublicPolicy; Figure 2.3 A Roadmap for Policies on DecarbonisationEnergy Technologies; Inside the Learn...

Figure 2.8 Brazilian Ethanol 1978-1995Inside the Learning System II: Compound Systems; Figure 2.9 US Learning System for Production of Electricityfrom Wind; Figure 2.10 Electricity from Wind Energy in USA, 1985-1994; Chapter 3: Making Emerging Technologies Commercial; Solar Heating - Monitoring and...

Wind Power - Deployment Support to Increase LearningInvestmentsFigure 3.3 Electricity from Wind Energy in EU, 1980-1995; Figure 3.4 Wind Turbines in Germany, 1990-1998; Figure 3.5 Average Capacity of Wind Turbines Units InstalledEach Year; Figure 3.6 Changing Markets for Wind Turbines in Germany; Fi...

Figure 3.10 Japan's PV-Roof Programme: Use of NicheMarketsFigure 3.11 Investments and Subsidies in PV-Roof Programme; Figure 3.12 Japan's PV-Roof Programme and World PVMarkets; Figure 3.13 Learning Investments in Residential PV Systems; Chapter 4: The Dynamics of Learning and TechnologyCompetition;...

Figure 4.5 Present value of Technology Portfolio