Promotion of energy conservation in developing countries through the combination of ESCO and CDM: A case study of introducing distributed energy resources into Chinese urban areas

Energy Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 8125-8136

  Ren, Hongbo ^a,b   Zhou, Weisheng ^b   Gao, Weijun ^c   Wu, Qiong ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KITAKYUSHU   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distributed energy resource; ESCO and CDM; Profit allocation

Indexed keywords

CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCE; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES; ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; ECONOMIC PROFIT; END USERS; ENERGY COST SAVINGS; ENERGY SERVICE COMPANY; ENERGY SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS; ESCO AND CDM; INVESTMENT RISKS; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; PROFIT ALLOCATION; REDUCED ENERGY; SIMULATION RESULT; THERMAL BALANCE; URBAN AREAS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COST REDUCTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY CONSERVATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PROFITABILITY;

INVESTMENTS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY RESOURCE; INVESTMENT; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; URBAN AREA;

CHINA;

EID: 80855131618     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2011.10.007     Document Type: Article

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