Future capacity growth of energy technologies: Are scenarios consistent with historical evidence?

Climatic Change

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 381-395

  Wilson, C ^a   Grubler, A ^b,d   Bauer, N ^c   Krey, V ^b   Riahi, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^c POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSE GASES;

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; END-USE TECHNOLOGIES; ENERGY-ECONOMIC MODEL; HISTORICAL RELATIONSHIPS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; LEARNING FROM THE PASTS; LOW-CARBON TECHNOLOGIES; POWER GENERATION TECHNOLOGY;

CARBON;

DATA ACQUISITION; EMISSION; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENERGY; ENERGY RESOURCE; GREENHOUSE GAS; POWER GENERATION; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84876675773     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0618-y     Document Type: Article

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