Towards a sustainable grid development regime? A comparison of British, Norwegian, and Swedish grid development

Energy Research and Social Science

Volumn 9, Issue , 2015, Pages 178-187

  Sataøen, Hogne Lerøy ^a   Brekke, Ole Andreas ^a   Batel, Susana ^b   Albrecht, Martin ^c  

^a Uni Research   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Governance; Grids; Infrastructure planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945470727     PISSN: 22146296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2015.08.011     Document Type: Article

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