Role of renewable energy policies in energy dependency in Finland: System dynamics approach

Applied Energy

Volumn 113, Issue , 2014, Pages 758-765

  Aslani, Alireza ^a,b   Helo, Petri ^a   Naaranoja, Marja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VAASA   (Finland)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dependency; Finland; Renewable energy resources; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY SECURITY; SYSTEM THEORY;

DEPENDENCY; ENERGY DEPENDENCY; FINLAND; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICY; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH; SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODEL;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

DECISION MAKING; DIAGRAM; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENERGY USE; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

FINLAND;

EID: 84883528207     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.08.015     Document Type: Article

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