A review of installed solar photovoltaic and thermal collector capacities in relation to solar potential for the EU-15

Renewable Energy

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 849-856

  Celik, Ali Naci ^a   Muneer, Tariq ^b   Clarke, Peter ^b  

^a MUSTAFA KEMAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

European union; Feed in tariff; GDP per capita; Photovoltaics; Solar heating; Solar radiation potential

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; HEATING; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR COLLECTORS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR HEATING; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; SOLAR RADIATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; SUN;

EUROPEAN UNION; FEED-IN TARIFF; GDP PER CAPITA; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SOLAR RADIATION POTENTIAL;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EUROPEAN UNION; HEATING; INCOME; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; SOLAR POWER; SOLAR RADIATION;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GREECE; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 54149096710     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2008.05.025     Document Type: Article

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