Promoting electricity from renewable energy sources - lessons learned from the EU, United States, and Japan

Competitive Electricity Markets

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 419-468

  Haas, Reinhard ^a   Meyer, Niels I ^b   Held, Anne ^c   Finon, Dominique ^d   Lorenzoni, Arturo ^e   Wiser, Ryan ^f   Nishio, Ken Ichiro ^g  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS AND INNOVATION RESEARCH ISI   (Germany)

^d Centre International de Recherche sur lEnvironnement et le Developpement   (France)

^e BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^f LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

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EID: 71649089697     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008047172-3.50016-7     Document Type: Chapter

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