Susceptibility of the European electricity sector to climate change

Energy

Volumn 59, Issue , 2013, Pages 183-193

  Klein, Daniel R ^a   Olonscheck, Mady ^a   Walther, Carsten ^a   Kropp, Jürgen P ^a,b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Air conditioners; Electricity generation by source; Energy security; Heating and cooling electricity consumption; Thermal electricity production; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY; ENERGY SECURITY;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY PRODUCTION; ELECTRICITY SECTOR; ELECTRICITY SYSTEM; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; THERMAL ELECTRICITY; VULNERABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AIR CONDITIONING; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; HEATING; VULNERABILITY;

BELGIUM; EUROPE; GREECE; LUXEMBOURG [BELGIUM]; NORWAY;

EID: 84883281054     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2013.06.048     Document Type: Article

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