Electricity produced from renewable energy sources-What target are we aiming for?

Energy Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 5576-5584

  Verhaegen, Karolien ^a   Meeus, Leonardo ^a   Delvaux, Bram ^a   Belmans, Ronnie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

European policy; Renewable energy sources; Target setting

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; ENERGY POLICY; INTERNATIONAL TRADE;

DOMESTIC ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION TARGET;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY POLICY; EUROPEAN COMMISSION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 34548733597     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2007.06.004     Document Type: Article

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