Not quite converted: How fuel prices both started and stopped a biomass heating plant project

Biofuels

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 493-500

  Runge, Troy M ^a   Porter, Pamela A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS CONVERSION; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; FUEL PRICES; HEATING PLANTS; NATURAL GAS PRICE; PLANT UPGRADES;

BIOCONVERSION; BIOMASS; NATURAL GAS; SPACE HEATING;

BIOFUELS;

EID: 84883229884     PISSN: 17597269     EISSN: 17597277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/bfs.13.39     Document Type: Article

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