Open source software and crowdsourcing for energy analysis

Energy Policy

Volumn 49, Issue , 2012, Pages 149-153

  Bazilian, Morgan ^a,b   Rice, Andrew ^c   Rotich, Juliana ^d   Howells, Mark ^e   DeCarolis, Joseph ^f   Macmillan, Stuart ^g,h   Brooks, Cameron ⁱ   Bauer, Florian ^j   Liebreich, Michael ^k  

^a UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION   (Austria)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d Ushahidi   (Kenya)

^e ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^f NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^h STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ Tendril Networks   (United States)

^j Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership   (Austria)

^k Bloomberg New Energy Finance   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Crowdsourced data; Energy modelling; Open source data

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCED DATA; CROWDSOURCING; ENERGY ANALYSIS; HIGH QUALITY; INPUT DATAS; MODELLING PROCESS; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; OPEN SOURCES; PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT; ROBUST ENERGY; USER COMMUNITIES;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT;

ACCESSIBILITY; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY RESOURCE; PLANNING METHOD; POLICY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84866238831     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.06.032     Document Type: Article

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