Empty promises or promising futures? The case of smart grids

Energy

Volumn 93, Issue , 2015, Pages 67-74

  Kovacic, Zora ^a,b   Giampietro, Mario ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complexity; Electricity; Energy; Multi scale; Quality assessment; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY SECURITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPLEXITY; ENERGY; MULTI-SCALE; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

COMPLEXITY; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY POLICY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84949657852     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2015.08.116     Document Type: Article

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