The European Commission has issued a technical document that rounds up cost and emissions data for the principal electricity generating technologies. It’s likely to be used as a reference document in E.U. energy policy discussions, so let’s see what’s in it.
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Entries categorized as ‘energy economics’
Electricity costs and carbon emissions, by technology
July 25, 2009 · 6 Comments
Categories: CO2 emissions · energy economics · energy policy · energy technologies
Tagged: carbon emissions, coal, electricity, energy, gas, hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, wind
The external costs of electricity generation
June 24, 2009 · 2 Comments
The ExternE project has done the sums on the external costs of electricity generation. Wind has the lowest external costs, coal has the highest.
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Categories: energy economics · energy policy
Tagged: coal, external costs, externality, ExternE, wind power
The cost of carbon abatement
May 17, 2008 · 6 Comments
What are the cheapest ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? How much does each carbon abatement measure cost? How does energy efficiency compare against energy generation? “Cost curve” analyses can provide some answers.
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Categories: CO2 emissions · energy economics · energy policy
Tagged: carbon dioxide emissions, cost curve, McKinsey
Energy economics in an era of carbon pricing
March 9, 2008 · 13 Comments
How much does low carbon electricity cost? What carbon price is needed to make it economical, and how does that price compare with the true external costs of carbon emissions?
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Categories: CO2 emissions · climate change · energy economics · energy policy
Tagged: carbon price, CCS, coal, dCHP, electricity, externality, gas, nuclear, Pigovian tax, solar, Stern Review, wind
