Public acceptance of solar energy: The case of Peninsular Malaysia

IEEE 2013 Tencon - Spring, TENCONSpring 2013 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 540-543

  Solangi, K H ^a   Badarudin, A ^a   Kazi, S N ^a   Lwin, T N W ^a   Aman, M M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

energy; Malaysia; solar

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY; GOVERNMENT DECISIONS; MALAYSIA; QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; SOCIAL ACCEPTABILITY; SOLAR; SOLAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES;

INVESTMENTS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84883658239     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TENCONSpring.2013.6584503     Document Type: Conference Paper

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