Beijing, where air pollution and the associated health impacts has become the major concerns for the local government, has shut down its last coal-fired power plant in March, 2017. With that, Beijing became the first city in China to rely entirely on cleaner energy sources like natural gas for its electricity generation. Previous studies have suggested that the marginal damage caused by the air pollutants vary acorss space, which is affected by the location of the sources. However, few studies have estimated the marginal damages from the power plants in China, and the spatial distribution of the health impacts. To fill this gap, this study builds an integrated assessment model to estimate the maringal damages of PM2.5 emissions from all power plants in and around Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Heibeijing area, which will be referred to as BTH area in the following text). Then, based on the marginal damages estimation, the aggregate benefits of this coal power elimination actions will be calculated. Meanwhile, suggestions on which are the coal-fired power plants to be shut down in the next stage of actions will be provided.
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