Up-scaling, formative phases, and learning in the historical diffusion of energy technologies

Energy Policy

Volumn 50, Issue , 2012, Pages 81-94

  Wilson, Charlie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Formative phases; Learning; Up scaling

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; END-USES; ENERGY SUPPLIES; ENERGY SYSTEMS; ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; EXPERIENCE CURVES; FORMATIVE PHASES; GROWTH PATTERNS; GROWTH PHASE; HETEROGENEOUS MARKETS; LEARNING; LEARNING EFFECTS; LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGIES; SCALE ECONOMIES; SCALE EFFECTS; TIME-SERIES DATA; UPSCALING;

DIFFUSION; EXPERIMENTS; INDUSTRY; TECHNOLOGY;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

DEMAND ANALYSIS; ECONOMY OF SCALE; ENERGY MARKET; LEARNING; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION; TECHNOLOGY POLICY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866894769     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.04.077     Document Type: Article

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