Health and Heating in the City of Temuco (Chile). Monetary Savings of Replacing Biomass with PV System in the Residential Sector

José M. Cansino, Roberto Moreno, Daniela Quintana and Rocio Roman-Collado
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José M. Cansino: Faculty of Economic and Business/Department of Economic Analysis and Political Economy, Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. Ramón y Cajal 1, 41.005 Sevilla, Spain
Roberto Moreno: Centro de Investigación Multidisciplinario de La Araucanía (CIMA), Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Avda. Alemania No. 01090, Temuco 4780000, Chile
Daniela Quintana: Centro de Investigación Multidisciplinario de La Araucanía (CIMA), Facultad de Arquitectura y Construcción, Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Avda. Alemania No. 01090, Temuco 4780000, Chile
Rocio Roman-Collado: Faculty of Economic and Business/Department of Economic Analysis and Political Economy, Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. Ramón y Cajal 1, 41.005 Sevilla, Spain

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 19, 1-22

Abstract: The paper conducts a comprehensive analysis of replacing residential use of wood burning stoves for heating with photovoltaic systems for the generation of electricity using storage batteries (PV + storage systems). The research focuses on the city of Temuco (Southern Chile) as a case study, since this city has a high use of firewood for heating (80% of households) and also because this city has been declared by authorities as an area saturated with suspended particles. The total cost corresponds to the acquisition of systems. The reduction of monetary value of the impact of polluting emissions, resulting from the combustion of firewood, on health and traffic accidents is calculated. The interactive tool GDB Compare has been used to calculate the impact of pollution on health both in terms of attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life years. The monetary value of the impact on health has been calculated using two alternative approaches: the value of statistical life and the human capital approach. To identify firewood use requirements, heating degree–days has been used for temperatures ≤15 °C and ≤18 °C. The emissions avoided calculations have been refined, including emissions associated with the manufacture and transport of systems through the life cycle analysis. For all scenarios, the main results show that the savings outweigh the costs.

Keywords: ambient particulate matter; household air pollution; Temuco; DALY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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