Indicators to determine winning renewable energy technologies with an application to photovoltaics

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 4849-4855

  Grossmann, Wolf D ^a,b   Grossmann, Iris ^c   Steininger, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ENERGY DEMANDS; ENERGY USE; GLOBAL ENERGY; LAND USE PROBLEMS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; RENEWABLES; SOLAR THERMAL ELECTRICITY;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; ENERGY USE; FUTURE PROSPECT; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER;

ARTICLE; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY RESOURCE; POLITICS; RENEWABLE ENERGY; SAFETY; SOLAR ENERGY;

ALGORITHMS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; CADMIUM COMPOUNDS; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY RESOURCES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POWER PLANTS; SOLAR ENERGY; TELLURIUM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954253069     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es903434q     Document Type: Article

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