Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet (The MIT Press) - Softcover

Sivaram, Varun

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0262537079 ISBN 13: 9780262537070

Publisher: MITPress, 2019

Synopsis

How solar could spark a clean-energy transition through transformative innovation—creative financing, revolutionary technologies, and flexible energy systems.

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About the Author

Varun Sivaram is a physicist and Chief Technology Officer at ReNew Power Ventures, a multibillion-dollar renewable energy firm that is India's largest. He is also a senior research scholar at the Columbia University Center for Global Energy Policy and a board member for the Stanford University's energy and environment intitutes. Most recently, he was the science and technology fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directed the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, where he taught "Clean Energy Innovation." He has also served as senior energy advisor to the Los Angeles Mayor and New York Governor's Office, and as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. PV Magazine called him "The Hamilton of the Solar Industry," Forbes named him one of its 30 under 30, and Grist selected him as one of the top 50 leaders in sustainability. He is the editor of the book Digital Decarbonization: Promoting Digital Innovations to Advance Clean Energy Systems. He holds a PhD in condensed matter physics from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.

Edition details

• Publisher: MITPress
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262537079
• ISBN 13: 9780262537070
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 390