External Environmental Costs of Electric Power

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-IX

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Olav Hohmeyer, Richard L. Ottinger

      Pages 1-4

3. Some Conclusions from the Workshop

   1. Some Conclusions from the Workshop

      • Olav Hohmeyer, Richard L. Ottinger

      Pages 5-6

4. Subject Area 1: Recent Results of the Research on Environmental Damages An Introductory Overview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Tasks and Problems of Analysis and Evaluation of Emission Impacts on Terrestrial Ecosystems

      • R. Guderian

      Pages 9-24

   3. Economic Losses to Society Due to Material Damages of Environmental Pollution in the Federal Republic of Germany

      • Margit Weltschev

      Pages 25-35

   4. Global Warming Climate Protection Measures of the Enquête-Commission of the German Parliament

      • Wilfrid Bach

      Pages 36-58

   5. The Externalities of Global Warming

      • David R. Hodas

      Pages 59-78

5. Subject Area 2: Monetization of Environmental Damages

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 79-79

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   2. Environmental Externalities Measurement: Quantification, Valuation and Monetization

      • Stephen Bemow, Bruce Biewald, Donald Marron

      Pages 81-102

   3. Basic Problems in Valuating Environmental Damages: The Case of Forest Damage

      • Hans-Jürgen Ewers

      Pages 103-114

   4. The Valuation of Environmental Externalities in Utility Regulation

      • Paul Chernick, Emily Caverhill

      Pages 115-124

   5. Integrating Energy and The Environment in The Marketplace

      • Daniel J. Dudek

      Pages 125-146

   6. Valuation of Environmental Cost by Heat Emissions from Pollution Control

      • Reiner Kümmel, Uwe Schüssler

      Pages 147-158

   7. Contingent Valuation Study of The Environmental Costs of Electricity Generating Technologies

      • Shepard C. Buchanan

      Pages 159-167

   8. A Comparison of Emissions and Externality Costs of Waste-to-Energy and Coal Fired Electric Power Plants

      • David R. Wooley

      Pages 168-190

   9. Incorporating Externalities in Least-cost Planning: The Use of Control Costs, Standards, and Multi-Attribute Approaches

      • Uwe Fritsche

      Pages 191-209

6. Subject Area 3: Impacts of the Internalisation of External Costs

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 211-211

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   2. Impacts of External Costs on the Competitive Position of Wind Energy in the Federal Republic of Germany

      • Olav Hohmeyer

      Pages 213-225

   3. External Costs of Electricity Generation

      • R. Friedrich, U. Kallenbach

      Pages 226-233

Environmental costs of electric power generation are receiving increasing attention as an important input to planning and decision processes. Since the outstart of the discussion on the monetized environmental costs of electricity in 1988 a number of studies have been conducted on the subject, producing partially contradictory results. Simultaneously political action has resulted from the first stage on this discussion process. In Germany the higher rates which have to be payed to autoproducers based on renewable energy sources have been explicitly justified by the existence of external environmental costs of conventional electricity generation. At the same time some state regulatory commissions in the United States have introduced adders for environmental costs in the utility planning process. This book reports on the first international workshop on the subject, bringing together practically all experts in the field of research and political implementation from the United States and Germany, the two pioneering countries. The more than thirty contributed papers contained in this volume give the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the field. Some papers already outline the future course of research by giving an overview over some major research projects, which have just started.

• Energie
• Energy
• Environment
• Environmental Economics
• External Costs
• Externe Kosten
• Umwelt
• Umweltökonomie
• electricity

• Fraunhofer-Institut für Systemtechnik und Innovationsforschung, Karlsruhe 1, Germany

  Olav Hohmeyer

• Center for Environmental Legal Studies, Pace University School of Law, White Plains, USA

  Richard L. Ottinger

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