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Chapter 4

PoliticaleEconomic

Governance of Renewable
Energy Systems: The Key to

Create Sustainable
Communities

1,a
Woodrow W. Clark, II , Xing Li 2
1 2
Clark Strategic Partners, Beverly Hills, CA, United States; Aalborg University, Aalborg,
Denmark

Chapter Outline
Corporate and Business Influences and Developing World Leaders in
Power 66 Energy Development and
International Cases 66 Sustainable Technologies 80
China Leapfrogs Ahead 67 Costs, Finances, and Return on
China Has “Leapfrogged” Into the Investment 81
Green Industrial Revolution 67 Conclusions and Future Research
The Western Economic Paradigm Must Recommendations 84
Change 68 Chart A: The Germany Feed-in-Tariff
Introduction and Background 69 Policy and Results (1990e2010) 85
EU Policies 74 Chart B: The Germany Feed-in-Tariff
Japan and South Korea are Leaders Policy Economic Results (1990e2007) 86
in the Green Industrial Revolution 76 References 86
Distributed Renewable Energy Further Reading 88
Generation for Sustainable
Communities 79

a. The authors thank Jon McCarthy for both economic details and edits as well as Lucas Adams,
KentaroFunaki, Claus Habermeier, and Russell Vare for international perspectives and data.
Namrita Singh and Jerry Ji checked on data contributions.

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