Internalization of External Costs of Energy Generation in Central and Eastern European Countries

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11690%2F12%3A10132189" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11690/12:10132189 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1070496512442504" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1070496512442504</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1070496512442504" target="_blank" >10.1177/1070496512442504</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Internalization of External Costs of Energy Generation in Central and Eastern European Countries
Original language description
In this article a bottom-up approach to quantification of air pollution externalities from electricity generation is used to show that market-based instruments are not very effective in internalizing these external costs in six CEE countries. Although governments in CEE countries have regulated air emissions by imposing strict command-and-control measures, most of them have also introduced air emission charges and more recently taxes on electricity. We find however that the level of internalization by these two economic instruments is fairly low for existing fossil-fired power plants ranging from 3% for coal- and lignite-fuelled plants to 31% for gas-fuelled plants. The picture improves if cross-subsidies for renewable electricity are accounted for butthe internalization level is still below air pollution-related external costs, between 9% and 55% for coal- and oil-fired power plants. A substantial overinternalization by these three instruments is however encountered in the case of ga
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AH - Economics
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/SPII4I1%2F52%2F07" target="_blank" >SPII4I1/52/07: Modelling of Environmental Tax Reform Impacts: Second Phase of the ETR</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2012
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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