Investment in distributed energy generation: A present-value model of different technologies

Investment Management and Financial Innovations

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 48-59

  Järvinen, Tuukka ^a   Laitinen, Erkki K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cost of energy; Distributed energy generation; Investment project assessment; Present value

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954739605     PISSN: 18104967     EISSN: 18129358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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