Motivations and barriers to integrating ‘prosuming’ services into the future decentralized electricity grid: Findings from Israel

Energy Research and Social Science

Volumn 21, Issue , 2016, Pages 70-83

  Michaels, Lucy ^a   Parag, Yael ^a  

^a INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Demand management technologies; Israel; Prosumers; Public acceptance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978431511     PISSN: 22146296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2016.06.023     Document Type: Article

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