What drives renewable energy development?

Energy Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 5099-5104

  Alagappan, L ^a   Orans, R ^a   Woo, C K ^a,b  

^a Energy and Environmental Economics Inc   (United States)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Interconnection cost; Renewable energy development; Transmission planning

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY; END-USERS; HIGH COSTS; INSTALLED CAPACITY; INTERCONNECTION COSTS; MARKET STRUCTURES; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT; RENEWABLE GENERATION; RENEWABLE GENERATORS; TRANSMISSION INTERCONNECTIONS; TRANSMISSION PLANNING;

COMMERCE; COSTS; PLANNING;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COST; ENERGY PLANNING; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY RESOURCE; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; SUSTAINABILITY;

EID: 79960723395     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.06.003     Document Type: Article

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