Assessing the economic wind power potential in Austria

Energy Policy

Volumn 53, Issue , 2013, Pages 323-330

  Gass, Viktoria ^a   Schmidt, Johannes ^a   Strauss, Franziska ^a   Schmid, Erwin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

GIS; Levelized cost of electricity; Wind power potential

Indexed keywords

AUSTRIA; DECISION SYSTEMS; ECOLOGICAL PRESERVATION; ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; ENERGY PLAN; EUROPEAN UNION; FEED-IN TARIFF; LEVELIZED COST OF ELECTRICITIES; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; POLICY INTERVENTION; POWER POTENTIAL; WIND POWER CAPACITY;

ENERGY POLICY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HELICAL ANTENNAS; PROFITABILITY; SITE SELECTION; WIND TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY POLICY; EUROPEAN UNION; GIS; TARIFF STRUCTURE; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 84871422243     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.079     Document Type: Article

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