Measuring multiple impacts of low-carbon energy options in a green economy context

Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Agnes Kelemen, Sergio Tirado-Herrero, Stefan Thomas, Johannes Thema, Nora Mzavanadze, Dorothea Hauptstock, Felix Suerkemper, Jens Teubler, Mukesh Gupta and Souran Chatterjee

Applied Energy, 2016, vol. 179, issue C, 1409-1426

Abstract: The economic assessment of low-carbon energy options is the primary step towards the design of policy portfolios to foster the green energy economy. However, today these assessments often fall short of including important determinants of the overall cost-benefit balance of such options by not including indirect costs and benefits, even though these can be game-changing. This is often due to the lack of adequate methodologies.

Keywords: Multiple benefits; Co-benefits; Adverse side-effects; Energy efficiency; Green economy; Multiple benefit quantification methodology; Impact pathway; Quantification methods; Cost-benefit analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.07.027

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