Motives for and barriers to household adoption of small-scale production of electricity: Examples from Sweden

Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-15

  Palm, Jenny ^a   Tengvard, Maria ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Attitude measures; Electric power generation; Electrical equipment; Energy consumption; Environmental awareness; Renewable energy resources; Solar cells; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960279843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15487733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15487733.2011.11908061     Document Type: Article

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