TY - JOUR
TI - Measuring the Environmental Benefits of Wind-Generated Electricity
AU - Cullen, J
T2 - American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
AB - Production subsidies for renewable energy, such as solar or wind power, are rationalized by their environmental benefits. Subsidizing these projects allows clean, renewable technologies to produce electricity that otherwise would have been produced by dirtier, fossil-fuel power plants. In this paper, I quantify the emissions offset by wind power for a large electricity grid in Texas using the randomness inherent in wind power availability. When accounting for dynamics in the production process, the results indicate that only for high estimates of the social costs of pollution does the value of emissions offset by wind power exceed cost of renewable energy subsidies.
DA - 2013/11//
PY - 2013
VL - 5
IS - 4
SP - 107
EP - 133
UR - https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.5.4.107
DO - 10.1257/pol.5.4.107
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Human Dimensions
KW - Social & Economic Data
ER -