Renewable energy technologies in the Maldives-determining the potential

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1650-1674

  van Alphen, Klaas ^a   van Sark, Wilfried G J H M ^a   Hekkert, Marko P ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adoption; Maldives; Multi criteria analysis; Renewable energy technology; Resource assessment; Small island developing states

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WIND POWER;

ISLANDS; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 34250173851     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2006.02.001     Document Type: Review

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