Debt for brands: Tracking down a bias in financing photovoltaic projects in Germany

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1356-1364

  Lüdeke Freund, Florian ^a   Loock, Moritz ^b  

^a LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Business models; Conjoint analysis; Photovoltaic; Project finance; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS MODELS; CONJOINT ANALYSIS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PROJECT FINANCE; RENEWABLE ENERGY;

ENERGY POLICY; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

FINANCE;

EID: 79958110337     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2011.04.006     Document Type: Article

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