Building a business to close the efficiency gap: The Swedish ESCO experience

Energy Efficiency

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 237-256

  Soroye, Katie Lindgren ^a   Nilsson, Lars J ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Business case; Business strategy; Efficiency gap; Energy services directive; EPC; ESCOs; Sweden

Indexed keywords

BEST PRACTICE; BUSINESS CASE; BUSINESS STRATEGY; CHANGE AGENTS; END-USES; ENERGY DEMANDS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROGRAMS; ENERGY MARKETS; ENERGY SAVING; ENERGY SERVICE COMPANY; ENERGY SERVICES; GAP ENERGY; IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS; INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM; MARKET OPPORTUNITIES; MARKET SEGMENT; MEMBER STATE; RAPID GROWTH; RESIDENTIAL SECTORS; SERVICE FUNCTIONS; SWEDISH MARKETS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; COMMERCE; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY MANAGEMENT; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; RESEARCH; STRATEGIC PLANNING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

BUSINESS; DEMAND ANALYSIS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY POLICY; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION;

SWEDEN;

EID: 77955056107     PISSN: 1570646X     EISSN: 15706478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12053-009-9069-3     Document Type: Article

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