A Spatially-Explicit Economic and Financial Assessment of Closed-Loop Ground-Source Geothermal Heat Pumps: A Case Study for the Residential Buildings of Valle d’Aosta Region
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Geographic Information System (GIS); Ground Source Heat Pumps (GSHPs); closed-loop; financial analysis; Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE); Discounted Payback Period (DPP);All these keywords.
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