External cost of electricity generation in Baltic States

Štreimikienė, Dalia; Roos, Inge; Reķis, Jānis

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2008.02.004

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“…For mortality impacts, one needs to determine the value of a life-year lost, which in turn is based on the so-called value of statistical life, the amount of money that society is willing to pay to avoid an anonymous premature death. Finally, the health impacts are multiplied with the unit cost of health impact to calculate the related damage costs [9,22]. …”

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

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“…The approach starts by identifying a source of emissions, modelling the dispersion of these emissions into the atmosphere and estimating their impacts on society. The final stage consists of valuing the impacts 27 . Fig.…”

Section: Modelling Of Externalities In Electricity Generationmentioning

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“…For mortality impacts, one needs to determine the value of a life year lost, which in turn is based on the so-called value of statistical life, the amount of money that society is willing to pay to avoid an anonymous premature death. Finally, the health impacts are multiplied with the unit cost of health impact to calculate the related damage costs 27,31,32 .…”

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External costs from fossil electricity generation: A review of the applied impact pathway approach

Jorli

Passel

Saghdel

2018

Energy & Environment

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This paper reviews and compares eleven studies that have estimated external costs of fossil electricity generation by benefits transfer. These studies include thirteen countries and most of these countries are developing countries. The impact pathway approach is applied to estimate the environmental impact arising from fossil fuel fired power plant's air emission and the related damages on human health. The estimated damages are used to value the monetary external costs from fossil fuel electricity generation. The estimated external costs in the thirteen countries vary from 0.51 to 213.5 USD (2005) per MWh due to differences in fossil fuel quality, location, technology and efficiency of power plants and additionally differences in assumptions, monetization values and impact estimations. Accounting for these externalities can indicate the actual costs of fossil energy. The results can be applied by policy makers to take measures to avoid additional costs and to apply newer and cleaner energy sources. The described methods in the selected studies to estimate external costs with respect to incomplete local data, can be applied as a useful example for other developing countries.

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“…ExternE research group under European Commission developed methods on the monetary valuation of external cost due to the electricity production (European Commission;European Commission, 2005), and these results can be used for other energy carriers. The ExternE methodology is used to weight the impacts according to the preferences of the society, and this methodology has widely accepted and used by the scientific community and considered as the world reference in the fields (Carlsson, 2002a,b;Gebremedhin and Carlson, 2002;Streimikiene et al, 2009;Genon et al, 2009;Difs and Trygg, 2009;Rafaj and Kypreosa, 2007). The monetary values of externalities often included in the heating system are those due to atmospheric emissions of CO 2 , NO x , SO x and particulates generated during fuel combustion.…”

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Conceptual design of an integrated heating system at LKAB Malmberget with consideration of social-environmental damage costs

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Nordgren

Lindblom

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Journal of Cleaner Production

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External cost of electricity generation in Baltic States

Cited by 16 publications

References 2 publications

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

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

External costs from fossil electricity generation: A review of the applied impact pathway approach

Conceptual design of an integrated heating system at LKAB Malmberget with consideration of social-environmental damage costs

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