External Environmental Costs of Electric Power

1. Introduction.- 2. Some conclusions from the workshop.- 3. Subject area 1: Recent results of the research on environmental damages - An introductory overview.- 3.1 Tasks and problems of analysis and evaluation of emission impacts on terrestrial ecosystems.- 3.2 Economic losses to society due to material damages of environmental pollution in the Federal Republic of Germany.- 3.3 Global warming, climate protection measures of the Enquête-Commission of the German parliament.- 3.4 The externalities of global warming.- 4. Subject area 2: Monetization of environmental damages.- 4.1 Environmental externalities measurement: Quantification, valuation and monetization.- 4.2 Basic problems in valuating environmental damages: The case of forest damage.- 4.3 The valuation of environmental externalities in utility regulation.- 4.4 Integrating energy and the environment in the marketplace.- 4.5 Valuation of environmental cost by heat emissions from pollution control.- 4.6 Contingent valuation study of the environmental costs of electricity generating technologies.- 4.7 A comparison of emissions and externality costs of waste-to-energy and coal fired electric power plants.- 4.8 Incorporating externalities in least-cost planning: The use of control costs, standards, and multi-attribute approaches.- 5. Subject area 3: Impacts of the internalisation of external costs.- 5.1 Impacts of external costs on the competitive position of wind energy in the Federal Republic of Germany.- 5.2 External costs of electricity generation.- 5.3 External costs involved in generating electrical energy in the Eastern part of Germany.- 5.4 Facing up to the true environmental costs of electric power generation.- 6. Subject area 4: Ways of internalizing external costs - Theoretical considerations.- 6.1 Methods for valuing and incorporating environmental costs in electric resource planning and acquisition.- 6.2 Role of control costs in developing climate change policy.- 6.3 Cooperative research,

Quantified and monetized environmental costs of energy have been receiving substantial attention since 1988. The pressing environmental problems from acid rain through global warming to nuclear accidents have lead to an increasing willingness to include such costs in energy planning and pricing. The book, reporting on the first international workshop on this matter, gives a comprehensive picture of the latest research in the filed and the different approaches to the practical implementation of these results.