State and local economic impacts from wind energy projects: Texas case study

Energy Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 7930-7940

  Slattery, Michael C ^a   Lantz, Eric ^b   Johnson, Becky L ^a  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economic impacts; Texas; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCTION PHASE; CURRENT LEVELS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; ECONOMIC POLICIES; FULL TIME EQUIVALENTS; INSTALLED CAPACITY; LOCAL COMMUNITY; MANUFACTURING CAPACITY; TEXAS; WIND ENERGY PROJECTS; WIND FARM; WIND INDUSTRY; WIND POWER DEVELOPMENT;

CIVIL AVIATION; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ENERGY POLICY; FARMS; INVESTMENTS; SUPPLY CHAINS; WIND POWER;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ECONOMIC POLICY; LOCAL ECONOMY; NUMERICAL MODEL; WIND FARM; WIND POWER;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80855131563     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.09.047     Document Type: Article

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