Linn, Joshua; Mastrangelo, Erin; Burtraw, Dallas - 2014
greenhouse gas emissions from existing coal-fired power plants. This paper examines the operation of coal-fired generating units … efficiency. We find that a 10 percent increase in coal prices causes a 0.2 to 0.5 percent heat rate reduction, broadly consistent … with engineering assessments. We also find that coal prices have a significant effect on utilization. The results are used …