Experience with renewable energy policy in Germany

Harnessing Renewable Energy in Electric Power Systems: Theory, Practice, Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 283-308

  Weigt, Hannes ^a   Leuthold, Florian ^a  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

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