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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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Incorporating uncertainty into electric utility projections and decisions
Hanson, D.A. - 2008
sulfur coal. Here we assume that regulated electric utilities do have some incentive to lower revenue requirements and hence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435822
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Incorporating uncertainty into electric utility projections and decisions
Hanson, D.A. - 2008
sulfur coal. Here we assume that regulated electric utilities do have some incentive to lower revenue requirements and hence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436272
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New Horizons for Hydrogen: Producing Hydrogen from Renewable Resources
2011
Recent events have reminded us of the critical need to transition from crude oil, coal, and natural gas toward …
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Issues in the assessment of congenital health risks from mercury in coal
Lipfert, F.W.; Moskowitz, P.D.; Saroff, L. - 2011
and shellfish containing MeHg and the effects that local coal combustion might have on those risks. Two scenarios were … in order to demonstrate the model`s validity. The incremental effect of local coal combustion is represented by …
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Economic Analysis of Selected Environmental Issues in China
Zhou, Yuan - 2005
This thesis investigates several selected environmental issues in China from an economic perspective. It consists of four self-contained papers. Chapters 2-4 address the issues related to water shortage, while Chapter 5 focuses on the cost of air pollution. Chapter 2 analyses the potential...
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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
price increases the most with a historic or auction approach. Coal-fired generation in the RGGI region decreases under all … well under updating designs that include them among those eligible for allowances. Coal-fired generators lose the most … effect on asset values for all fuel types including coal. The one exception is that moving from 50% auction and 50% updating …
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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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Emissions Trading and Intersectoral Dynamics: Absolute versus Relative Design Schemes
de Vries, Frans P.; Dijkstra, Bouwe R.; McGinty, Matthew - 2011
This paper examines the interdependence between imperfect competition and emis-sions trading in a two-sector (clean and dirty) economy. We compare the welfare implica-tions of an absolute cap-and-trade scheme (permit trading) with a relative intensity-basedscheme (credit trading). We nd...
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Short-term energy outlook, April 1999
2009
The forecast period for this issue of the Outlook extends from April 1999 through December 2000. Data values for the first quarter 1999, however, are preliminary EIA estimates (for example, some monthly values for petroleum supply and disposition are derived in part from weekly data reported in...
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