Performance evaluation of renewable energy support policies, applied on Flanders' tradable certificates system

Energy Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1385-1394

  Verbruggen, Aviel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Excess profits; Renewable energy support systems; Tradable certificates

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY SECTORS; EXCESS PROFITS; FLANDERS; MULTI-LAYERED; PERFORMANCE EVALUATIONS; POWER COMPANIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES; RENEWABLE ENERGY SUPPORT SYSTEMS; SUPPORT POLICIES; SUSTAINABLE ENERGIES; TRADABLE CERTIFICATES;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY CONSERVATION;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SUSTAINABILITY; TECHNOLOGY POLICY;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; FLANDERS; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 63449141384     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2008.11.032     Document Type: Article

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