Assessing the performance of Dutch local energy companies

Energy Policy

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 680-690

  Blokhuis, Erik ^a   Advokaat, Bart ^a   Schaefer, Wim ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Local energy company; Renewable energy technology

Indexed keywords

ENERGY USE; EUROPEAN UNION; LEC; LOCAL ENERGY; LONG-TERM POLICIES; NETHERLANDS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; TOTAL ENERGY;

DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

INDUSTRY;

BENCHMARKING; DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENERGY USE; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SUBSIDY SYSTEM;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84859744923     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.03.021     Document Type: Article

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