Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Productivity Growth of Electricity Generators
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Greenhouse Gas Emissions and the Productivity Growth of Electricity Generators by Greg Murtough, David Appels, Anna Matysek, and C. A. Knox Lovell was released on 18 December 2001. This paper develops and applies a measure of productivity growth that can incorporate unpriced environmental impacts. The methodology builds on the established technique of data envelopment analysis and is applied to one of the more significant environmental issues facing Australia - greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation. Also see:
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CONTENTS
Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Contents, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations, Glossary, Key Messages, Overview
1 Introduction
2 The greenhouse effect and electricity generation
2.1 Greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation
3 Productivity measurement and the environment
3.1 Index number studies
3.2 Production frontier studies
4 Methodology and data
4.1 Methodology
4.2 Data
4.3 Descriptive analysis of emissions
5 Quantitative Results
5.1 Decomposition of emission intensity growth
5.2 Abatement elasticities
5.3 Abatement costs
6 Concluding comments
A Production frontier analysis
B Decomposition of emission intensity growth
C Carbon dioxide emissions
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