Social Cost of Electricity

Edited by Anil Markandya, Basque Centre for Climate Change, Spain and Honorary Professor, University of Bath, UK, Andrea Bigano, Senior Researcher, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Italy and Roberto Porchia, former Researcher, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Italy

• Contents:Foreword Introduction Roberto PorchiaPART I: COST ASSESSMENT1. External CostsLuke Brander, El Hadji Fall, Rainer Friedrich, Stefan Hirschberg,Onno Kuik, Kristin Magnussen, Ståle Navrud, Philipp Preiss, AriRabl and Bob Van der Zwaan 2. Electricity Supply Externalities: Energy SecuritySteven Arnold, Arno Behrens, Christian Egenhofer, Alistair Hunt,Anil Markandya, Adriaan van der Welle and Bob van der Zwaan 3. Private CostsMarkus Blesl and Steffen Wissel 4. Social Costs of Electricity in the EURoberto Porchia 5. Methodology and Results in Non-EU CountriesXianli Zhu, Lars Rosendahl Appelquist and Kirsten Halsnæs PART II: POLICY EVALUATION6. Policy InstrumentsGesine Bökenkamp, Wan-Jung Chou, Olav Hohmeyer, Alistair Hunt,Anil Markandya and Wouter Nijs 7. Assessment of Policy Instruments and Electricity GenerationTechnologiesGesine Bökenkamp, Danae Diakoulaki, Olav Hohmeyer, WouterNijs and Christos Tourkolias PART III: ELECTRICITY SCENARIOS8. Electricity Scenarios in EU CountriesHouda Allal, Ole Løfsnes, Thomas Niesor, Berit Tennbakk andMatteo Urbani Index

‘The Social Cost of Electricity stands out for its ambitious effort to model and quantify the external costs of electric-power generation. . . Without doubt, the data presented in this volume will be of great interest to policymakers and researchers and will challenge future debates on energy policy.’