A Win–Win Mechanism for Electricity Procurement by a Local Distribution Company
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and Environmental Economics, Inc. (E3), an economics and engineering consulting firm in San Francisco. He is now on leave from E3, teaching applied economics at the Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). With 30 years of experience in the electricity industry and over 100 refereed publications, he is an associate editor of Energy and a member of the editorial board of The Energy Journal. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Davis.
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تاریخ انتشار 2013