Identifying barriers in the diffusion of renewable energy sources

Energy Policy

Volumn 80, Issue , 2015, Pages 153-164

  Eleftheriadis, Iordanis M ^a   Anagnostopoulou, Evgenia G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greece; RES Legitimization; Resource mobilization barriers; Technological innovation systems

Indexed keywords

NATURAL RESOURCES; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; WIND POWER; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

ELECTRICITY SECTOR; FINANCIAL RESOURCES; GREECE; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLICY INTERVENTION; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; RESOURCE MOBILIZATION; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION SYSTEMS; RES LEGITIMIZATION;

DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION BARRIERS;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EUROPEAN UNION; INNOVATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER; WIND FARM; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; ENERGY RESOURCE; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION; WIND POWER;

GREECE;

EID: 84924259468     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2015.01.039     Document Type: Article

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