Environmental impacts from the solar energy technologies

Energy Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 289-296

  Tsoutsos, Theocharis ^a   Frantzeskaki, Niki ^b   Gekas, Vassilis ^b  

^a Centre for Renewable Energy Sources   (Greece)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Environmental impact assessment; Photovoltaic; Solar energy systems

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ENERGY SOURCES; SOLAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES;

ENERGY POLICY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 4143132092     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-4215(03)00241-6     Document Type: Article

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