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Incorporating uncertainty into electric utility projections and decisions

Hanson, D.A. - 2008

This paper focuses on how electric utility companies can respond in their decision making to uncertain variables. Here we take a mean- variance type of approach. The mean'' value is an expected cost, on a discounted value basis. We assume that management has risk preferences incorporating a...

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Economic Analysis of Selected Environmental Issues in China

Zhou, Yuan - 2005

of air pollution. Chapter 2 analyses the potential application of desalination in China from an economic perspective … health impacts from air pollution in Tianjin. Although China has made dramatic economic progress in recent years, air …This thesis investigates several selected environmental issues in China from an economic perspective. It consists of …

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Allocation of CO2 Emissions Allowances in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program

Burtraw, Dallas; Palmer, Karen L.; Kahn, Danny - 2005

-effective pollution reduction. One of the important design questions in a trading program is how to initially distribute the emissions …

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CO2 Allowance Allocation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and the Effect on Electricity Investors

Burtraw, Dallas; Kahn, Danny; Palmer, Karen L. - 2005

The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) is an effort by nine Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states to develop a regional, mandatory, market-based cap-and-trade program to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the electricity sector. The initiative is expected to lead to an increase in the...

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An analysis of SO sub 2 emission compliance under the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments

Hanson, D.A.; Cilek, C.M.; Pandola, G.; Taxon, T. - 2008

The effectiveness of SO{sub 2} emission allowance trading under Title 4 of the 1990 Amendments to the Clean Air Act (CAA) is of great interest due to the innovative nature of this market incentive approach. However, it may be a mistake to frame the compliance problem for a utility as a decision...

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The 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments and the Great Lakes economy: Challenges and opportunities

Hanson, D.; Molburg, J.; Pandola, G.; Taxon, T.; Lurie, G. - 2008

This paper deals with the market for SO{sub 2} emission allowances over time and electric utility compliance choices. For currently high emitting plants ( 2.5 lb SO{sub 2}/MMBtu), the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) provide for about twice as many SO{sub 2} allowances to be issued per year...

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Information and issues related to the quantification of environmental externalities for new powerplants

Lee, A.D.; Callaway, J.M.; Glantz, C.S.; Baechler, M.C.; … - 2008

This report provides background information for the Bonneville Power Administration (Bonneville) in its efforts to quantify the environmental externalities associated with new electricity resources. A more detailed companion document has been provided to Bonneville for internal use. This report...

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Estimation of expected value for lognormal and gamma distributions. [Environmental pollutants]

White, G.C. - 2009

Concentrations of environmental pollutants tend to follow positively skewed frequency distributions. Two such density functions are the gamma and lognormal. Minimum variance unbiased estimators of the expected value for both densities are available. The small sample statistical properties of...

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An interregional hedonic analysis of noxious facility impacts on local wages and property values

Clark, D.E.; Nieves, L.A. - 2008

Claims of property value loss are commonly raised by homeowners when noxious facilities are sited or when new information about the hazards of existing facilities is made public. While the capitalization of externalities into land values is consistent with economic theory, empirical measurement...

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Ökonomische Analyse des Europäischen Emissionshandels als Teil globaler Klimapolitik

Wiesweg, Maik - 2011

Ein Handel mit verbrieften Verschmutzungsrechten gilt als treffsicher, als kosteneffizient und darüber hinaus als geeignet, umwelttechnischen Fortschritt zu induzieren. Das Europäische Emissionshandelssystem weist einige Besonderheiten auf, welche zu Wirkungsbrüchen führen können, die...

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