Combining tariffs, investment subsidies and soft loans in a renewable electricity deployment policy

Energy Policy

Volumn 69, Issue , 2014, Pages 430-442

  Mir Artigues, Pere ^a   Del Río, Pablo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^b Institute of Public Goods and Policies   (Spain)

Author keywords

Combinations; Cost effectiveness; Feed in tariffs; Policies; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; COSTS; INSTRUMENTS; PUBLIC POLICY; TECHNOLOGY;

COMBINATIONS; FEED-IN TARIFF; FINANCIAL MODELING; POLICY COMBINATION; RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES; SOCIAL ACCEPTABILITY;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY POLICY; EUROPEAN UNION; POLICY STRATEGY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; TARIFF STRUCTURE;

EID: 84899129042     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2014.01.040     Document Type: Article

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