Norwegian households' perception of wood pellet stove compared to air-to-air heat pump and electric heating

Energy Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 3744-3754

  Sopha, Bertha Maya ^a   Klöckner, Christian A ^a   Skjevrak, Geir ^a   Hertwich, Edgar G ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Heating choices; Multinomial logistic regression (MLR); Norwegian perception

Indexed keywords

DECISION STRATEGY; ECONOMIC SUPPORTS; ELECTRICITY PRICES; FINANCIAL SUPPORT; HEAT PUMPS; HEATING SYSTEM; MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION; MULTINOMIAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION (MLR); POLICY INITIATIVES; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEYS; SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS; WOOD PELLET; WOOD PELLET STOVE;

ELECTRIC HEATING; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; PELLETIZING; PUMPS; STOVES; SURVEYS;

WOOD;

ENERGY POLICY; HEATING; HOUSEHOLD ENERGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

ELECTRIC HEATING; HEATING; NORWEGIAN; PELLETING; PERCEPTION; PUMPS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS; WOOD;

NORWAY;

EID: 77953686175     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.02.052     Document Type: Article

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