Mainstreaming of environmental externalities creates market advantages for low carbon energy sources. Although coal fuel is cheaper to produce electricity, yet its societal life cycle costing (LCC) is significantly higher than bioenergy systems. This research applied a novel societal life cycle costing approach to estimate the economic values of environmental damages to society that result from coal and biomass fired electricity generation. Options to be considered are described.Īlberta's electricity market is deregulated consequently, it does not recognize the benefits of renewables. New coal-based generation requirements in the sizes needed in Taiwan create an opportunity for several of the Cats currently under demonstration in the United States. Taper reports that all of its proposed coal-fired units will be equipped with modern flue gas emission reduction devices, such as electrostatic precipitators or baghouse filters, flue gas desulfurization and deco(subscript x) devices, to reduce the pollutants to their minimum practical levels. All new coal-fired power plants are expected to comply with government regulations on S02, NO(subscript x), and particulate emissions. The average load is expected to grow at an annual rate of 5.6% while the peak load is projected to increase at an annual rate of 6.0%.
The electricity demand for Taiwan is expected to continue to grow at a very rapid rate during the 1990-2006 time frame. In 1988, 71.6 TWh of electricity was produced, 21.1 TWh of which was from coal-fired units (29%). Despite experiencing a record low in 19, electricity demand returned to double digit growth, reaching 11.6% and 10.2% in 19, respectively, due to a strong economic recovery. During the period 1971 to 1980, electricity consumption in Taiwan increased remarkably at an average rate of 12.2% per year.