Policy analysis model incorporating acid rain and sulfur dioxide damages associated with power plant conversions from oil to coal in the state of Florida

Thesis/Dissertation · Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5780157

Lynch, T A

The analysis described demonstrates the use of benefit/cost sensitivity analysis in examining the wide range of potential damages and savings associated with converting oil-fired electric utility boilers to burn coal in Florida. This model, for the first time incorporates, in quantitative terms, environmental economic externalities into a benefit/cost ratio sensitivity analysis framework. Five different dose-response estimates of morbidity and mortality costs, property devaluation, and willing-to-pay estimates are used in combination with four acid rain dose-response models to estimate the net present worth of externality costs. The model estimates the net present worth of benefits by incorporating into a dynamic framework all relevant construction, O + M, and fuel costs of converting an electrical generation facility from using oil to coal. These benefits of fuel savings are then weighted against various combinations of externality costs associated with increased sulfur oxide emission from the converted units. The policy analysis simulations provided in this study demonstrate that the economic externalities associated with uncontrolled emissions are frequently far greater than the higher operation and maintenance and capital costs of the most expensive emission control equipment.

• OSTI ID: 5780157
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS
29 ENERGY PLANNING
POLICY AND ECONOMY
01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
ACID RAIN
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
AIR POLLUTION ABATEMENT
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
FLORIDA
FOSSIL-FUEL POWER PLANTS
FUEL SUBSTITUTION
SULFUR DIOXIDE
COAL
COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
FUEL OILS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
CHALCOGENIDES
ECONOMICS
ENERGY SOURCES
FEDERAL REGION IV
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
LIQUID FUELS
MATERIALS
NORTH AMERICA
OILS
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OTHER ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
POLLUTION ABATEMENT
POWER PLANTS
RAIN
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
SULFUR OXIDES
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
USA
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Atmospheric- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport- (-1989)
200202 - Fossil-Fueled Power Plants- Waste Management- Noxious Gas & Particulate Emissions
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296001 - Energy Planning & Policy- Electric Power Generation- (-1989)
290300 - Energy Planning & Policy- Environment
Health
& Safety
010900 - Coal
Lignite
& Peat- Environmental Aspects