Marginal abatement cost (MAC) curves: confronting theory and practice

By Fabian Kesicki, N. Strachan. 2011

232 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Limin Du
2. Aoife Hanley
3. S. Sorrell
4. Chu Wei
5. J. Schleich
6. K. Turner
7. Karsten Olsen
8. Ning Zhang

In Environmental Engineering

1. Aoife Hanley
2. Limin Du
3. S. Sorrell
4. Chu Wei
5. K. Turner
6. Ning Zhang

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. Aoife Hanley
2. Limin Du
3. S. Sorrell
4. Chu Wei
5. K. Turner
6. J. Schleich
7. Benjamin Sovacool
8. Inês Lima Azevedo

Citations in the corpus

• Reducing energy demand: A review of issues, challenges and approaches (2015, background): “Even without carbon pricing, many studies suggest that there are numerous cost effective opportunities to improve energy ef fi ciency in the majority of end-use sectors — as exempli fi ed by the marginal abatement cost curves developed by McKinsey and others [58].”
• Decarbonising ceramic manufacturing: A techno-economic analysis of energy efficient sintering technologies in the functional materials sector (2019, background): “£/tCO2e) of different sintering techniques and the total amount of energy or CO2 saved [167,168].”
• Estimating the marginal abatement cost curve of CO2 emissions in China: Provincial panel data analysis (2015, methodology): “Although it is easy to understand, the traditional expert-based MACC has also been heavily criticized (Kesicki and Strachan, 2011).”