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of natural resources, we analyse the profitability of wind onshore and offshore and solar PV across Europe to determine …. We find that investments in the considered technologies are not homogeneously profitable across Europe. This suggests …
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of natural resources, we analyse the profitability of wind onshore and offshore and solar PV across Europe to determine …. We find that investments in the considered technologies are not homogeneously profitable across Europe. This suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899727
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China and India will have to radically transform their electric power systems in order to decouple economic growth from unsustainable resource consumption. While the majority of transition literature has focused on the diverse socio-technical factors that could enable such a transformation, more...
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The Obama administration has repeatedly identified the large-scale build-out of clean, renewable energy infrastructure as a key priority of the United States. The President's calls for a cleaner energy economy are often accompanied by references to other industrialized countries such as Germany,...
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Offshore wind power is regarded as a crucial renewable energy technology to achieve the ambitious CO2 reduction targets of the EU. However, offshore wind power is not yet competitive with traditional electricity generation technologies, so its sustained development depends on national support...
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Defenders of suburban sprawl assert that sprawl is inevitable in affluent societies, based on trends in Western Europe … futile. This Article compares Western Europe to the United States, and criticizes the Inevitabilty Theory on the grounds that …: (1) Europe is in fact far less automobile-dependent than the United States; (2) Europe has not, contrary to the …
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This paper analyses persistence and change in the regional league table of entrepreneurship performance in the United States in comparison with England and Wales and West Germany. It examines whether regional rankings in start-up and self-employment rates in the United States are as sticky over...
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This paper investigates the impact of the recent global recession on European countries and regions. We first present several stylized facts as to the heterogeneous impact of the global recession on individual European countries and regions. We then offer an investigation of three main classes...
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is made to the strategies of France and Spain. One of the purposes of our comparative approach with Europe is to identify … relevant legislation in Australia and Europe reveals the differing implications for the hydrogen sector of low versus high …
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