Greening public buildings: ESCO-contracting in Danish municipalities

Energies

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2407-2427

  Jensen, Jesper Ole ^a   Nielsen, Susanne Balslev ^b   Hansen, Jesper Rohr ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Energy savings; Energy Service Companies (ESCO); Municipalities; Public buildings

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ENERGY CONSERVATION;

DENMARK; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENERGY SERVICE COMPANY; LOCAL CONTEXTS; MUNICIPALITIES; PUBLIC BUILDINGS; STRONG GROWTH;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 84880433541     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961073     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/en6052407     Document Type: Article

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