Investigating the importance of motivations and barriers related to microgeneration uptake in the UK

Applied Energy

Volumn 130, Issue , 2014, Pages 403-418

  Balcombe, Paul ^a,b   Rigby, Dan ^b   Azapagic, Adisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barriers; Best worst scaling; Feed in tariffs; Microgeneration; Motivations; The Green Deal

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; HEATING;

BARRIERS; BEST-WORST SCALING; FEED-IN TARIFF; MICROGENERATION; THE GREEN DEAL;

MOTIVATION;

ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY POLICY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SELF SUFFICIENCY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84903848777     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.05.047     Document Type: Article

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