Estimating the health damage costs of syrian electricity generation system using impact pathway approach

Hainoun, A.; Almoustafa, A.; Aldin, M. Seif

doi:10.1016/j.energy.2009.10.034

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“…In these studies, Thai power plants consume natural gas, lignite, and oil, while Syrian plants use heavy fuel oil and natural gas [13,16]. As a final point, Figure 9 depicts distribution of total health costs from all 61 power plants in Iran.…”

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“…For example, Thai and Syrian studies have estimated that sulfates accounted up to 83% and 88% of the total damage costs, respectively, with the costs from nitrates being 9% and 10%, and the costs from PM 10 being 8% and 2%, respectively. In these studies, Thai power plants consume natural gas, lignite, and oil, while Syrian plants use heavy fuel oil and natural gas [13,16].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, for airborne pollution, whether from fossil-fired or nuclear power plants, SIMPACTS utilizes a simplified version of IPA, also known as the damage function approach. With fossil-fired power plants, SIMPACTS estimates the impacts from exposure to pollutants [16,33]. In general, the SIMPACTS approach is a simplification of EcoSense methodology.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…With fossil-fired power plants, SIMPACTS estimates the impacts from exposure to pollutants [16,33]. In general, the SIMPACTS approach is a simplification of EcoSense methodology.…”

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Estimating Human Health Impacts and Costs Due to Iranian Fossil Fuel Power Plant Emissions through the Impact Pathway Approach

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Air pollutants from fossil fuel fired power plants harm the environment and human health. More than 91% of Iran's electricity production is from thermal power plants that use natural gas, diesel, and fuel oil. We apply the impact pathway approach to estimate the health impacts arising from Iranian fossil-based electricity generation emission, and in a next step, we calculate monetary costs of the estimated damages, for a one-year period starting from 20 March 2016 through 2017. We use the new version of SIMPACTS (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria) to investigate the health effects from 61 major Iran fossil-based power plants separately. The selected plants represent 95.6% of total Iran fossil-based power generation. Using the individual and different power plant estimates, we avoid extrapolation and our results can be considered more reliable, taking into account spatial differences. The total damage cost is 723.42 million USD (2000). The damage cost per generated electricity varies from 0.06 to 22.41 USD/MWh and average plant damage cost is 2.85 USD/MWh. Accounting for these external costs indicates the actual costs of fossil energy. The results are useful for policy makers to compare the health costs from these plants and to decide on cleaner energy sources and to take measures to increase benefits for society.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

“…With fossil-fired power plants, SIMPACTS estimates the impacts from exposure to pollutants [16,33]. In general, the SIMPACTS approach is a simplification of EcoSense methodology.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Estimating Human Health Impacts and Costs Due to Iranian Fossil Fuel Power Plant Emissions through the Impact Pathway Approach

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“…al., 2012;Chien and Lior, 2011). Inspite of the emphasis on renewable technologies, non-renewable technologies still play a significant part in the electricity generation mix as highlighted in multiple impact assessment studies (Czarnowska and Frangopoulos, 2012;Hainoun et. al., 2010).…”

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Aggregation and internalisation of electricity externalities in South Africa

Thopil

Pouris

2015

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Abstract:Energy-environmental impacts associated with non-renewable electricity generation have attained critical importance in South Africa. These impacts are quantified in order to obtain a monetary cost relative to local electricity prices. The methodology used to perform the analysis is the Impact Pathway Approach. Numerous energy-environmental external impacts have been evaluated in this study. The primary externality contributors were found to be green-house gas (GHG) emissions and public health effects from coal combustion. Other minor but important contributors to externalities are also identified and mentioned within the paper. Aggregated central externality costs were found to range from 5.86-35.36 SA c/kWh (1.31-7.95 US c/kWh), with central externalities estimates at 13.43 SA c/kWh (3.02 US c/kWh). These central estimates were found to be 68.5% of average electricity prices during the year 2008. Conversion of externality costs from South African currency to US currency has been made with purchasing power parity exchange rates for the year 2008. This study provides sufficient methodological parity for countries with similar electricity generation backgrounds in Southern Africa and Africa as well as other developing countries, considering South Africa generates roughly 45% of the electricity on the African continent.

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