Dedication; List of Figures; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgement; Preamble and Thesis; Prologue; Introduction; Phase I: Promises: The Technologies of Tomorrow ... (50s-80s); Phase II: Inching Along ... Early Commercialization (90s-2000); Phase III: From Problem Child to Problem Solver: The Era of Exponential Growth (2000-2020); The Fourth Phase: Dominance: From Petro to Electro (2020+): The Convergence of Factors; Clean Electricity Is The Backbone of Our Clean Energy Economy; Economics/Finance: From Competitive to Mainstream/ Economics/Investment : Alignment with Finance & Climate; Policy/Regulatory: Local, National and Global; Knowledge (Models, Tools/Data, for Planning & Operations, Business Models); Social Willingness; Institutional Willingness/Political Economy Dynamics; Pulling It All Together: Phase V: Beyond 2050; A Global Net Zero Energy Economy; Final Reflections and Our Call to Action; Appendices:; List of Academic Publications as of June 2023; References;