Residential photovoltaic plant: Environmental and economical implications from renewable support policies

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1929-1944

  Cucchiella, Federica ^a   D'Adamo, Idiano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Economic environmental maximisation; Feed in tariff; Photovoltaic; Tax deduction

Indexed keywords

CARBON; DEPRECIATION; ECONOMICS; HOUSING; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; PROFITABILITY; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR ENERGY; TAXATION;

FEED-IN TARIFF; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY; RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY; RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY POLICIES; RESIDENTIAL PHOTOVOLTAIC; TAX DEDUCTION;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84946474810     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-015-0913-1     Document Type: Article

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