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Recent study of the history of technological change has provided better understanding of the driving forces for technological innovation, as well as quantitative estimates of historical rates of technical change. Although such results are widely used in long-term energy models to estimate future...
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requires either a 70% higher on-grid electricity tariff or carbon price support of approximately US$50/tonne CO2 in the absence … available for increasing the return on the CCS investment include: enhanced oil recovery (EOR), a premium electricity tariff … much lower than the tariffs for natural gas combined cycle and nuclear power plants. Therefore, we suggest that a …
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recent increase in natural gas supply led to displacement of coal-fired electricity by cleaner natural gas-fired generation …
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This paper estimates the effect of coal-fired power plants on infant mortality in India. We find that a one GW increase in coal-fired capacity corresponds to a 14% increase in infant mortality rates in districts near versus far from the plant site. This effect is 2-3 times larger than estimates...
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The German decision to finally phase-out nuclear electricity has led to a debate on its effects on electricity prices …, emission prices in the European emission trading system, as well as on international electricity trade. We investigate these … phase-out on electricity and emission prices. Under a tight system, however, investments in conventional generation are …
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