Power system transformation toward renewables: Investment scenarios for Germany

Economics of Energy and Environmental Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 29-43

  Egerer, Jonas ^a,b   Schill, Wolf Peter ^a  

^a DIW BERLIN   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

German energy transformation; Integrated planning; Renewable integration; Storage; Transmission

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995969866     PISSN: 21605882     EISSN: 21605890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5547/2160-5890.3.2.jege     Document Type: Article

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