Literature Review

Joel's Literature Review




Cooler Planet:
http://solar.coolerplanet.com/News/11050902-santa-fe-greenlighted-for-solar-power-purchase-agreements.aspx

Has some information and links related to legal issues about solar energy in Santa Fe and the state of New Mexico.

City of Santa Fe website:
http://www.santafenm.gov/

Has archives which include minutes of previous meetings. Includes links and data about renewable energy incentives on the local, state and federal incentives for renewable energy.

Encyclopedia of Energy:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780121764807

Provides background data on various types of data including oil, hydropower, geothermal, hydrogen, photovoltaic systems, solar power and wind power.

Los Angeles Times:
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-green-jobs2-2010feb02,0,6156904.story

Provides some details on jobs in green industry, list requirements for "explosive" growth in solar companies, useful in terms of renewable energy background.

Electric Lights and Power:
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdf?vid=2&hid=6&sid=16fcc139-36e2-48c5-9fc0-f1586efb4f27%40sessionmgr4

Details about Boulder, CO becoming first city with fully integrated smart grid. Might be useful see how to do it, useful details.

Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Power to the People: Electric Utility Restructuring and the Commitment to Renewable Energy
http://wf2dnvr8.webfeat.org/DH5dN17363/url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3694070.pdf

Details about the electric grid, some cost stuff to do with infrastructure rebuilding, upgrading to smart grid, etc.

Science, Renewables Test IQ of the Grid
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/324/5924/172

Article that discusses the smart grid, definitions, issues, etc.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/power.htm

Article that describes how the electric grid functions and has some useful graphics.

http://sites.energetics.com/gridworks/grid.html

DOE site that talks about electric infrastructure, some useful stats, leads to more useful info at: http://sites.energetics.com/gridworks/pdfs/factsheet.pdf which has a lot more stats and some graphics.