Green power marketing: increasing customer demand for renewable energy

Utilities Policy

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 107-119

  Wiser, Ryan H ^a  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; ENERGY RESOURCE; MARKET DEVELOPMENT; MARKETING;

EID: 0031743211     PISSN: 09571787     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-1787(98)00005-8     Document Type: Article

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