Development of a new damage function model for power plants: methodology and applications

摘要

Recent models have estimated the environmental impacts of power plants, but differences in assumptions and analytical methodologies have led to diverging findings. In this paper, we present a new damage function model that synthesizes previous efforts and refines components that have been associated with variations in impact estimates. Our model focuses on end-use emissions and quantifies the direct human health impacts of criteria air pollutants. To compare our model to previous efforts and to evaluate potential policy applications, we assess the impacts of an oil and natural gas-fueled cogeneration power plant in Boston, MA. Impacts under baseline assumptions are estimated to be