Make it strategic! Financial investment logic is not enough

Energy Efficiency

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 473-492

  Cooremans, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Barriers to energy efficiency; Capital budgeting tools; Energy efficiency gap; Indirect benefits of energy efficiency; Investment decision making; Public policy; Strategic investment

Indexed keywords

BARRIERS TO ENERGY EFFICIENCY; CAPITAL BUDGETING; ENERGY-EFFICIENCY GAP; INDIRECT BENEFITS OF ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INVESTMENT DECISION-MAKING; STRATEGIC INVESTMENTS;

BUDGET CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PROFITABILITY;

INVESTMENTS;

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DECISION MAKING; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY POLICY; FINANCE; INVESTMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH;

EID: 80052533621     PISSN: 1570646X     EISSN: 15706478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12053-011-9125-7     Document Type: Review

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