PIX number

00560

Title:

Pollution from a power plant using coal to generate electricity

Caption

Because some of the costs and damages from environmental emissions are "external" to the power plant that generates them, they are not necessarily considered in utility planning and operations. In March 1994, 29 states and the District of Columbia required utilities to consider environmental externalities in planning new facilities.

Credit:

NREL

Publications:

Analytic studies brief - "The status of externalities in utility planning" (NREL/MK-461-7672, October 1995)Geothermal today: 2005 geothermal technologies program highlights. (NREL/BK-840-38174, 2005) (DOE/GO-102005-2189)

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Subject:

environment, fuels and chemicals - general, regulations and policy, utilities

Descriptors:

air pollution, coal, cost, electricity, emissions, facility, fossil fuels, power plant, smog, smoke, smoke stack, tower

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Release Level

Full/Internet

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