Investment and employment from large-scale photovoltaics up to 2050

Empirica

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 165-189

  Grossmann, Wolf ^a,b   Steininger, Karl W ^a   Schmid, Christoph ^a   Grossmann, Iris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy market development; Investments in energy; Labor in renewable energy; Renewable energy; Scenarios for solar energy

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; ECONOMIC IMPACT; EMPLOYMENT; ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY RESOURCE; INVESTMENT; MANUFACTURING; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 84860214811     PISSN: 03408744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10663-012-9185-8     Document Type: Article

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