Switching to biomass co-firing in european coal power plants: Estimating the biomass and C02 breakeven prices

Economics Bulletin

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1535-1546

  Bertrand, Vincent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

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