Carbon lock-out: Advancing renewable energy policy in Europe

Energies

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 323-354

  Lehmann, Paul ^a   Creutzig, Felix ^b   Ehlers, Melf Hinrich ^c   Friedrichsen, Nele ^d   Heuson, Clemens ^a   Hirth, Lion ^e   Pietzcker, Robert ^f  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^d JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^e PIK ^*  (Germany)

^f POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon lock in; Demand management; Electricity; Electricity generation; Energy policy; Feed in tariff; Grids; Renewable energy sources; Storage

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC LOAD MANAGEMENT; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY STORAGE; LOCKS (FASTENERS); NATURAL RESOURCES;

CARBON LOCK-IN; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FEED-IN TARIFF; GRIDS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 84857735386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en5020323     Document Type: Review

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