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Abandoning the concept of renewable energy
Abstract
Renewable energy is a widely used term that describes certain types of energy production. In politics, business and academia, renewable energy is often framed as the key solution to the global climate challenge. We, however, argue that the concept of renewable energy is problematic and should be abandoned in favor of more unambiguous conceptualization.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Harjanne, A., & Korhonen, J. M.
- Venue
- Energy Policy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2019-04
- Volume
- 127
- Pages
- 330-340
- ISSN
- 0301-4215 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2907340640
- Cited by
- 279
- References
- 11
- FWCI
- 5.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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