Consumers and green electricity: Profiling potential purchasers

Business Strategy and the Environment

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 36-48

  Rowlands, Ian H ^a   Scott, Daniel ^b   Parker, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; CONSUMPTION BEHAVIOR; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY MARKET;

CANADA;

EID: 0037256525     PISSN: 09644733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bse.346     Document Type: Article

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