External Environmental Costs of Electric Power: Analysis and Internalization

Front Matter....Pages I-IX
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Some Conclusions from the Workshop....Pages 5-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Tasks and Problems of Analysis and Evaluation of Emission Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystems....Pages 9-24
Economic Losses to Society Due to Material Damages of Environmental Pollution in the Federal Republic of Germany....Pages 25-35
Global Warming Climate Protection Measures of the Enquête-Commission of the German Parliament....Pages 36-58
The Externalities of Global Warming....Pages 59-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
Environmental Externalities Measurement: Quantification, Valuation and Monetization....Pages 81-102
Basic Problems in Valuating Environmental Damages: The Case of Forest Damage....Pages 103-114
The Valuation of Environmental Externalities in Utility Regulation....Pages 115-124
Integrating Energy and The Environment in The Marketplace....Pages 125-146
Valuation of Environmental Cost by Heat Emissions from Pollution Control....Pages 147-158
Contingent Valuation Study of The Environmental Costs of Electricity Generating Technologies....Pages 159-167
A Comparison of Emissions and Externality Costs of Waste-to-Energy and Coal Fired Electric Power Plants....Pages 168-190
Incorporating Externalities in Least-cost Planning: The Use of Control Costs, Standards, and Multi-Attribute Approaches....Pages 191-209
Front Matter....Pages 211-211
Impacts of External Costs on the Competitive Position of Wind Energy in the Federal Republic of Germany....Pages 213-225
External Costs of Electricity Generation....Pages 226-233
External Costs Involved in Generating Electrical Energy in the Eastern Part of Germany....Pages 234-240
Facing up to the True Environmental Costs of Electric Power Generation....Pages 241-249
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
Methods for Valuing and Incorporating Environmental Costs in Electric Resource Planning and Acquisition....Pages 253-263
Role of Control Costs in Developing Climate Change Policy....Pages 264-285
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
Cooperative Research, Development, and Demonstration Opportunities in Environmental Externalities and Energy Planning....Pages 286-305
Environmental Externalities in Utility Planning....Pages 306-320
Externalities and Least-Cost Planning: The Threshold of a Revolution....Pages 321-330
Internalization of “External’Costs: Necessary, but not Sufficient!....Pages 331-350
Front Matter....Pages 351-351
Incorporation of Environmental Externalities in the United States of America....Pages 353-374
A Comparison Of Methods Used By Regulators To Account For External Costs....Pages 375-388
State Regulatory Responses To The Threat Of Global Warming....Pages 389-396
Regulator’s Perspective On Environmental Externalities....Pages 397-407
California’s Experience with Including Environmental Values in Electricity Planning....Pages 408-418
New York State’s Environmental Costing Research Program in Context....Pages 419-433
American Public Opinion Regarding Energy and the Environment, 1977–1989....Pages 434-449
The Energy Policy of the Saarland: A Pragmatic Energy Policy in a Global Context Confronted with Uncertainty Concerning the External Costs of Energy....Pages 450-459
A Regional Strategy for Energy Efficiency — with special reference to the Co-Operation between Denmark and Schleswig-Holstein....Pages 460-472
“External Effects — A Complete Approach” The New Prognos Study on the External Effects of Energy Procurement....Pages 473-485
Scientific Report — A Case of Emergency....Pages 486-492
Back Matter....Pages 493-497