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Health and environmental impacts of China's current and future electricity supply, with associated external costs

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  • Stefan Hirschberg
  • Thomas Heck
  • Urs Gantner
  • Yongqi Lu
  • Joseph V. Spadaro
  • Alfred Trukenmuller
  • Yihong Zhao

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This paper summarises the results of the assessment of health and environmental impacts, and the corresponding external costs within the China Energy Technology Program (CETP). China faces an enormous challenge, as it needs to meet the growing demand for energy in general and electricity in particular. Coal is, and will most probably remain for a long time, the dominant energy carrier in China, and its continued use causes enormous damage to public health and the environment. Such damage backfires on the rate of economic growth. As demonstrated in the present work, the total (internal plus external) costs of environment-friendly electricity supply strategies are significantly lower than those of the seemingly cheaper, but "dirty" and nonsustainable, strategies based on traditional coal technologies. As demonstrated by the detailed analyses carried out for the Shandong province, cost-efficient reduction of health and environmental damages, and of the corresponding external costs, can be achieved by implementation of scrubbers and other "clean-coal" technologies, together with fuel diversification and promotion of efficiency.

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  • Stefan Hirschberg & Thomas Heck & Urs Gantner & Yongqi Lu & Joseph V. Spadaro & Alfred Trukenmuller & Yihong Zhao, 2004. "Health and environmental impacts of China's current and future electricity supply, with associated external costs," International Journal of Global Energy Issues, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 22(2/3/4), pages 155-179.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijgeni:v:22:y:2004:i:2/3/4:p:155-179
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