Boosting new renewable technologies towards grid parity - Economic and policy aspects

Renewable Energy

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2776-2784

  Lund, P D ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Breakthrough; Climate change mitigation; Cost parity; Financial support; Renewable electricity

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; BREAK-EVEN POINT; BREAKTHROUGH; CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; CLIMATE POLICY; ENERGY MARKET DYNAMICS; FINANCIAL RESOURCES; FINANCIAL SUPPORT; GLOBAL MARKET SHARE; INPUT DATAS; INPUT PARAMETER; LEARNING MODELS; LONG-TERM POLICIES; MARKET PENETRATION; NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; PHOTOVOLTAICS; PUBLIC SUPPORT; RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY; RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGY; SOLAR POWER; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION; WIND AND SOLAR POWER;

COMPETITION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; ECONOMICS; ELECTRICITY; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; INVESTMENTS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; TECHNOLOGY; WIND POWER;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY; BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; COMMERCIALIZATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY PLANNING; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FINANCIAL POLICY; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER; WIND POWER;

EID: 79957794143     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.04.025     Document Type: Article

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