The Social Cost of Electricity

Edited by Anil Markandya, Andrea Bigano and Roberto Porchia

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Abstract: This book reports and rationalizes the state-of-the-art concerning the social costs of electricity generation. Social costs are assessed by adding to the private generation costs, the external costs associated with damages to human health, the environment, crops, materials, and those related to the consequences of climate change. The authors consider the evolution of these costs up to 2030 for major electricity generating technologies and, using these estimates, evaluate policy options for external cost internalization, providing quantitative scenarios by country and primary fuel for 2010, 2020 and 2030. While mainly focusing on European countries, the book also examines the situation in key emerging economies such as China, India, Brazil and Turkey.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
ISBN: 9781848443501
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 External Costs

Luke Brander, El Hadji Fall, Rainer Friedrich, Onno Kuik, Kristin Magnussen and Stefan Hirschberg

Ch 2 Electricity Supply Externalities: Energy Security

Steven Arnold, Arno Behrens, Christian Egenhofer, Alistair Hunt, Anil Markandya and Adriaan van der Welle

Ch 3 Private Costs

Markus Blesl and Steffen Wissel

Ch 4 Social Costs of Electricity in the EU

Roberto Porchia

Ch 5 Methodology and Results in Non-EU Countries

Xianli Zhu, Lars Rosendahl Appelquist and Kirsten Halsnæs

Ch 6 Policy Instruments

Gesine Bökenkamp, Wan-Jung Chou, Olav Hohmeyer, Wouter Nijs, Alistair Hunt and Anil Markandya

Ch 7 Assessment of Policy Instruments and Electricity Generation Technologies

Gesine Bökenkamp, Danae Diakoulaki, Olav Hohmeyer and Christos Tourkolias

Ch 8 Electricity Scenarios in EU Countries

Houda Allal, Ole Løfsnes, Thomas Niesor, Matteo Urbani and Berit Tennbakk

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