Environmental costs of electricity
The so-called Pace Study' (Pace University Center for Environmental Legal Studies) is becoming a landmark for the measurement of environmental costs for the generation of electricity. It will be a reference concerned with measuring and incorporating the environmental damages into utility ratemaking. There are several reasons for this. The first is conceptual. Rather than associating the environmental costs with the clean-up costs, it addresses the damage function of various emissions resulting from electric generation by type of generation. Second, it presents damage cost estimates. Additionally, it will serve as a reference concerning calculations of environmental damage by type of generation in a variety of settings. Sponsored by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority and the US Department of Energy, it serves as an extensive review of the literature on the subject. The authors present the material in an easy-to-reference manner according to, first, emissions source, and then by generation source. The authors recognize the need for further research and, apparently, the size of the task. They state simply, the report is intended to assist utilities, government regulators, legislators, policy analysts and public interest groups in estimating the costs of the environmental impacts of pollutants. It will do that.
- OSTI ID:
- 7041801
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: From review by Donald A. Murry, Univ. of Oklahoma, in The Journal of Energy and Development, Vol. 18, No. 1, (Aut 1992)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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