Assessment of urban roof top solar photovoltaic potential to solve power shortage problem in Nepal

Energy and Buildings

Volumn 86, Issue , 2015, Pages 735-744

  Gautam, Bidur Raj ^a   Li, Fengting ^a   Ru, Guo ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Nepal; Photovoltaic solar power; Renewable energy; Rooftop solar; Urban solar

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; GREENHOUSE GASES; PROBLEM SOLVING; RURAL AREAS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

NEPAL; PHOTOVOLTAIC; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; ROOFTOP SOLAR; URBAN SOLAR;

OUTAGES;

EID: 84911886240     PISSN: 03787788     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enbuild.2014.10.038     Document Type: Article

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