Measuring the Environmental Benefits of Wind-Generated Electricity

By Joseph Cullen. 2013

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Sociology and Political Science

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Assessing the Energy-Efficiency Gap (2017, background): “Quantitative estimates of the magnitude of these externalities are limited, and most do not account for marginal emissions and damages being both location- and time-specific (Muller and Mendelsohn 2009; Zivin, Kotchen, and Mansur 2012; Cullen 2013).”
A retrospective analysis of benefits and impacts of U.S. renewable portfolio standards (2016, methodology): “…programs were effectively non-binding in 2013; otherwise, the benefits of RPS compliance should arguably be valued at carbon allowance prices to reflect savings in the cost of complying with the cap, not at the estimated cost of climate damages (Cullen 2013; Siler-Evans et al. 2013).28”
Location, Location, Location: The Variable Value of Renewable Energy and Demand-Side Efficiency Resources (2018, background): “…are well approximated by the 2.5th and 97.5th percentiles of the sampling distribution of these statistics. the relationship between hourly CO2 emissions in regional independent system operator (ISO) footprints and hourly electricity generation at fossil-fueled power plants in the same region.”
Effectiveness of climate policies: Carbon pricing vs. subsidizing renewables (2021, background): “(4) For the credibility of our results, we follow Abrell et al. (2019); Cullen (2013); Novan (2015) and assess how a marginal change in wind or solar infeed or a marginal change in the carbon price offsets electricity generation of other technologies.”
Potential co-benefits of electrification for air quality, health, and CO2 mitigation in 2030 China (2018, background): “Some studies based on hourly or minute-level analyses found an increase in air pollution and carbon emissions when fossil generation is frequently ramped up and down to manage the intermittent output from renewables [56,57].”
Market Impacts of a Nuclear Power Plant Closure (2016, background): “See, e.g., Joskow and Kahn (2002); Mansur (2007); Puller (2007); Holland and Mansur (2008); Cullen (2013); Cullen and Mansur (2014); Graff Zivin, Kotchen and Mansur (2014); Novan (Forthcoming).”
The Economics of Solar Electricity (2013, background): “Several recent papers use plausibly exogenous variation in wind power production, together with rich hourly data tracking system demand and plant-level operations, to identify the effect of marginal increases in wind electricity generation on system-wide emissions (Cullen, 2012; Kaffine et al., 2013”
Measuring the progress and impacts of decarbonising British electricity (2017, background): “Previously, Cullen estimated that wind displaces a mix of 18% coal and 85% gas in Texas, saving 496 ± 66 kg of CO2 per MWh of wind output (Cullen, 2013), while Thomson estimated a 60% coal, 40% gas mix for Britain over the period 2008‒13, saving 628 kg/ MWh (Thomson, 2014).”