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Carbon Pricing, Clean Electricity Standards, and Clean Electricity Subsidies on the Path to Zero Emissions
Borenstein, Severin; Kellogg, Ryan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
electricity generation--pricing carbon, setting intensity standards, and subsidizing clean energy--and compare their market … outcomes under similar expansions of clean electricity generation. While pricing emissions gives strong incentives to first … and emissions rates. We then estimate this correlation for US electricity generation and fuel prices as of 2019. The …
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Use of Aggregate Emission Reduction Cost Functions in Designing Optimal Regional SO2 Abatement Strategies
Mariam, Yohannes; Barre, Mike - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
The 1990 Canadian long-range transport of air pollutants and acid deposition report divided North America into 40 sources of emission and 15 sensitive receptor sites. For the purpose of national policy making and international negotiation, the use of these large sources and few receptors may...
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Emissions trading, electricity restructuring, and investment in pollution abatement
Fowlie, Meredith - In: The American economic review 100 (2010) 3, pp. 837-869
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When Competition Plays Clean : How Electricity Market Liberalization Facilitated State-level Climate Policies in the United States
Lee, Nathan - 2019
-in-differences analysis, I show that U.S. states that adopt electricity market liberalization laws are subsequently fifteen to forty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012900366
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Levelized cost of energy : a new estimation considering GHG emissions
Villone, Mario - In: Atlantic review of economics : AROE 2 (2019) 1
The aim of this paper is to enunciate a new way to estimate levelized cost of electric energy (LCOE), considering emission of greenhouse gases cost, by taking the theoretical cost of avoiding pollution as the emission cost. In this way, it would be comparable LCOE from different sources of...
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Decomposing Trends in U.S. Air Pollution Disparities from Electricity
Hernandez-Cortes, Danae; Meng, Kyle C.; Weber, Paige E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper quantifies and decomposes recent trends in U.S. PM2.5 disparities from the electricity sector using a high …-resolution pollution transport model. Between 2000-2018, PM2.5 concentrations from electricity fell by 89% for the average individual, more … dramatic convergence: since 2000, the Black-White PM2.5 disparity from electricity has narrowed by 95% and the Hispanic …
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Copenhagen and beyond: reflections on China's stance and responses
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010
China had been singled out by Western politicians and media for dragging its feet on international climate negotiations at Copenhagen, the accusations previously always targeted on the U.S. To put such a criticism into perspective, this paper provides some reflections on China's stance and...
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In what format and under what timeframe would China take on climate commitments? A roadmap to 2050
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010
In what format and under what timeframe China would take on climate commitments is of significant relevance to China because it is facing great pressure both inside and outside international climate negotiations to exhibit greater ambition and is being confronted with the threats of trade...
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Information disclosure strategies for green industries
Anbumozhi, Venkatachalam; Chotichanathawewong, Qwanruedee; … - 2011
Environmental information disclosure strategies, which involve corporate attempts to increase the availability of information on pollution and emissions, can become a basis for a new wave of environmental protection policy that follows and has the potential to complement traditional command and...
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The SO2 allowance trading system and the clean air act amendments of 1990: Reflections on twenty years of policy innovation
Chan, Gabriel; Stavins, Robert; Stowe, Robert; Sweeney, … - 2012
The introduction of the U.S. SO2 allowance-trading program to address the threat of acid rain as part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 is a landmark event in the history of environmental regulation. The program was a great success by almost all measures. This paper, which draws upon a...
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