How can Indian power plants cost-effectively meet the new sulfur emission standards? Policy evaluation using marginal abatement cost-curves
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Power-plant emission standards; SO2 control technologies; Abatement costs; SO2 inventory; Indian electric-power sector;All these keywords.
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