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Applying Benefit-Cost Analysis to Air Pollution Control in the Indian Power Sector
Air pollution is a persistent and well-established public health problem in India: emissions from coal-fired power plants have been associated with over 80,000 premature deaths in 2015. Premature deaths could rise by four to five times this number by 2050 without additional pollution controls. We si...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7473063/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32968618 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bca.2018.27 |
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author | Cropper, Maureen L. Guttikunda, Sarath Jawahar, Puja Lazri, Zachary Malik, Kabir Song, Xiao-Peng Yao, Xinlu |
author_facet | Cropper, Maureen L. Guttikunda, Sarath Jawahar, Puja Lazri, Zachary Malik, Kabir Song, Xiao-Peng Yao, Xinlu |
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description | Air pollution is a persistent and well-established public health problem in India: emissions from coal-fired power plants have been associated with over 80,000 premature deaths in 2015. Premature deaths could rise by four to five times this number by 2050 without additional pollution controls. We site a model 500 MW coal-fired electricity generating unit at eight locations in India and examine the benefits and costs of retrofitting the plant with a flue-gas desulfurization unit to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions. We quantify the mortality benefits associated with the reduction in sulfates (fine particles) and value these benefits using estimates of the value per statistical life transferred to India from high income countries. The net benefits of scrubbing vary widely by location, reflecting differences in the size of the exposed population. They are highest at locations in the densely populated north of India, which are also among the poorest states in the country. |
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spelling | pubmed-74730632020-09-21 Applying Benefit-Cost Analysis to Air Pollution Control in the Indian Power Sector Cropper, Maureen L. Guttikunda, Sarath Jawahar, Puja Lazri, Zachary Malik, Kabir Song, Xiao-Peng Yao, Xinlu J Benefit Cost Anal Articles Air pollution is a persistent and well-established public health problem in India: emissions from coal-fired power plants have been associated with over 80,000 premature deaths in 2015. Premature deaths could rise by four to five times this number by 2050 without additional pollution controls. We site a model 500 MW coal-fired electricity generating unit at eight locations in India and examine the benefits and costs of retrofitting the plant with a flue-gas desulfurization unit to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions. We quantify the mortality benefits associated with the reduction in sulfates (fine particles) and value these benefits using estimates of the value per statistical life transferred to India from high income countries. The net benefits of scrubbing vary widely by location, reflecting differences in the size of the exposed population. They are highest at locations in the densely populated north of India, which are also among the poorest states in the country. Cambridge University Press 2019-12-27 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC7473063/ /pubmed/32968618 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bca.2018.27 Text en © Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2018. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence, which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Articles Cropper, Maureen L. Guttikunda, Sarath Jawahar, Puja Lazri, Zachary Malik, Kabir Song, Xiao-Peng Yao, Xinlu Applying Benefit-Cost Analysis to Air Pollution Control in the Indian Power Sector |
title | Applying Benefit-Cost Analysis to Air Pollution Control in the Indian Power Sector |
title_full | Applying Benefit-Cost Analysis to Air Pollution Control in the Indian Power Sector |
title_fullStr | Applying Benefit-Cost Analysis to Air Pollution Control in the Indian Power Sector |
title_full_unstemmed | Applying Benefit-Cost Analysis to Air Pollution Control in the Indian Power Sector |
title_short | Applying Benefit-Cost Analysis to Air Pollution Control in the Indian Power Sector |
title_sort | applying benefit-cost analysis to air pollution control in the indian power sector |
topic | Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7473063/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32968618 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/bca.2018.27 |
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