Health impacts from power plant emissions in Mexico

We find that emissions from the power plant resulted in annual average concentrations of 0.12 μg m−3 (min-max: 0.00-1.43) for primary PM2.5, 0.64 μg m−3 (0.01-2.84) for secondary PM2.5 and 3.09 μg m−3 (0.01-41.54) for SO2 in the 120 km×120 km modeling domain. Such concentrations, while mostly affecting a relatively rural area, could result in significant public health and economic impacts for the local population. It is important to consider such damages when evaluating different electricity generation and control technologies.