Evaluating the best renewable energy technology for sustainable energy planning

International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy

Volumn 3, Issue SPECIAL ISSUE, 2013, Pages 23-33

  Demirtas, Ozgur ^a  

^a 2nd Turkish Air Supply and Maintenance Center Command   (Turkey)

Author keywords

AHP; Multi Criteria decision making; Renewable energy; Sustainable energy planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84892402849     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21464553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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