کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
995691 1481314 2012 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Health impacts of power-exporting plants in northern Mexico
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی انرژی مهندسی انرژی و فناوری های برق
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Health impacts of power-exporting plants in northern Mexico
چکیده انگلیسی

In the past two decades, rapid population and economic growth on the U.S.–Mexico border has spurred a dramatic increase in electricity demand. In response, American energy multinationals have built power plants just south of the border that export most of their electricity to the U.S. This development has stirred considerable controversy because these plants effectively skirt U.S. air pollution regulations in a severely degraded international airshed. Yet to our knowledge, this concern has not been subjected to rigorous scrutiny. This paper uses a suite of air dispersion, health impacts, and valuation models to assess the human health damages in the U.S. and Mexico caused by air emissions from two power-exporting plants in Mexicali, Baja California. We find that these emissions have limited but nontrivial health impacts, mostly by exacerbating particulate pollution in the U.S., and we value these damages at more than half a million dollars per year. These findings demonstrate that power-exporting plants can have cross-border health effects and bolster the case for systematically evaluating their environmental impacts.


► We estimate the health effects of emissions from Mexican electric power plants exporting to the U.S.
► The plants have limited but nontrivial effects, mostly from particulate pollution in the U.S.
► We value these damages at more than half a million dollars per year.
► Hence, power-exporting plants can have significant cross-border health effects.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Energy Policy - Volume 44, May 2012, Pages 34–45
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