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dc.contributor.authorHampf, Benjamin
dc.contributor.authorRødseth, Kenneth Løvold
dc.coverage.spatialU.S.Anb_NO
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-19T08:05:53Z
dc.date.available2019-12-19T08:05:53Z
dc.date.created2015-07-29T11:35:40Z
dc.date.issued2015-04-14
dc.identifier.citationEnergy Economics. 2015, 50 (July), 140-153.nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn0140-9883
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2634069
dc.description.abstractOn June 25, 2013, President Obama announced his plan to introduce carbon dioxide emission standards for electricity generation. This paper proposes an efficiency analysis approach that addresses which emission rates (and standards) would be feasible if the existing generating units adopt best practices. A new efficiency measure is introduced and further decomposed to identify different sources' contributions to emission rate improvements. Estimating two Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models – the well-known joint production model and the new materials balance model – on a dataset consisting of 160 bituminous-fired generating units, we find that the average generating unit's electricity-to-carbon dioxide ratio is 15.3% below the corresponding best-practice ratio. Further examinations reveal that this discrepancy can largely be attributed to non-discretionary factors and not to managerial inefficiency. Moreover, even if the best practice ratios could be implemented, the generating units would not be able to comply with the EPA's recently proposed carbon dioxide standard.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherElseviernb_NO
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internasjonal*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no*
dc.titleCarbon dioxide emission standards for U.S. power plants: An efficiency analysis perspectivenb_NO
dc.title.alternativeCarbon dioxide emission standards for U.S. power plants: An efficiency analysis perspectivenb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.rights.holder© 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.nb_NO
dc.description.versionsubmittedVersionnb_NO
cristin.unitcode7482,0,0,0
cristin.unitnameTransportøkonomisk institutt
cristin.ispublishedtrue
cristin.fulltextpreprint
cristin.qualitycode1
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.eneco.2015.04.001
dc.identifier.cristin1255463
dc.source.journalEnergy Economicsnb_NO
dc.source.volume50nb_NO
dc.source.issueJulynb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber140-153nb_NO


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