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Technical review of externalities issues. Final report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:10118928
Externalities has become the catchword for a major experiment in electric utility regulation. Together with increased competition as a means for economic regulation, this experiment represents a potential revolution in how electric utilities are regulated. It is very important for utilities and policy makers to understand the technical issues and arguments driving the externality experiment. This Technical Review presents four papers covering topics in economics that may play important roles in this revolution. The four papers are: Economic Issues in the Application of Externalities to Electricity Resource Selection; Climate Change, the Marginal Cost of Carbon Dioxide Emissions and the Implications for Carbon Dioxide Emissions Adders; Positive Externalities and Benefits from Electricity; and Socioeconomic Effects of Externality Adders for Electric Utility Emissions.
Research Organization:
Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States); Science and Technology Management, Inc., Brookfield, WI (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
OSTI ID:
10118928
Report Number(s):
EPRI-TR--104813; ON: UN95007255
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English