Smart grid: hope or hype?

Energy Efficiency

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 545-562

  Lunde, Morten ^a   Røpke, Inge ^b   Heiskanen, Eva ^c  

^a DANISH TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c National Consumer Research Centre   (Finland)

Author keywords

Expectations; Flexible demand; Scenario analysis; Smart grid

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; INVESTMENTS;

ENERGY SYSTEMS; EXPECTATIONS; FLEXIBLE DEMAND; POLICY MAKERS; SCENARIO ANALYSIS; SMART ENERGY SYSTEMS; SMART GRID; SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY POLICY; INNOVATION; INVESTMENT; POLICY MAKING;

EUROPE;

EID: 84939228361     PISSN: 1570646X     EISSN: 15706478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12053-015-9385-8     Document Type: Article

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