The politics and economics of cross-border electricity infrastructure: A framework for analysis

Energy Research and Social Science

Volumn 4, Issue C, 2014, Pages 124-134

  Puka, Lidia ^a   Szulecki, Kacper ^b  

^a Polish Institute of International Affairs (PISM)   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Electricity interconnectors; European; Infrastructure; Internal energy market; Loop flows; The; Union

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926229281     PISSN: 22146296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2014.10.003     Document Type: Article

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