Context-specific energy strategies: Coupling energy system visions with feasible implementation scenarios

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 9240-9248

  Trutnevyte, Evelina ^a   Stauffacher, Michael ^a   Schlegel, Matthias ^a   Scholz, Roland W ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDING REFURBISHMENTS; COUPLING ENERGIES; ECONOMIC INCENTIVE; ENERGY SCENARIOS; ENERGY STRATEGY; ENERGY SYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONSTRAINTS; HEAT DEMANDS; HEAT PUMPS; HEAT SUPPLY; IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISMS; LOCAL ENERGY; RURAL MUNICIPALITIES; SOLAR THERMAL; SPATIAL SCALE;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOTHERMAL ENERGY; HEAT; RURAL AREA; SOLAR ENERGY; SWITZERLAND; URBAN AREA; WOOD;

CITIES; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; POLICY MAKING; RURAL POPULATION; SWITZERLAND;

SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84865741144     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es301249p     Document Type: Article

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