Stakeholders' perspectives on barriers to remote wind-diesel power plants in Canada

Energy Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1611-1621

  Weis, Timothy M ^a,b   Ilinca, Adrian ^a   Pinard, Jean Paul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b Pembina Institute   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Incentives; Policy barriers; Wind diesel

Indexed keywords

DIESEL POWER PLANTS; ENERGY POLICY; FINANCE; OPERATING COSTS; PRODUCTION;

CAPITAL COSTS; POLICY BARRIERS; WIND-DIESEL HYBRID SYSTEMS; WIND-DIESEL POWER PLANTS;

WIND POWER;

DIESEL; INVESTMENT INCENTIVE; POWER PLANT; STAKEHOLDER; WIND POWER;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 40949107662     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2008.01.004     Document Type: Article

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