Measuring the environmental benefits of wind-generated electricity

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 107-133

  Cullen, Joseph ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880342994     PISSN: 19457731     EISSN: 1945774X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/pol.5.4.107     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). 2008. Factsheets.
2. Baerwald, Erin F., Genevieve H. D'Amours, Brandon J. Klug, and Robert M. R. Barclay. "Barotrauma is a significant cause of bat fatalities at wind turbines." Current Biology 18 (16): R695-96.
3. Campbell, Arthur. 2009. "Government support for intermittent renewable generation technologies." Unpublished.
4. Cullen, Joseph. 2008. "What's Powering Wind? Measuring the Environmental Benefits of Wind Generated Electricity." Unpublished.
5. Cullen, Joseph. 2011. "Dynamic Response to Environmental Regulation in the Electricity Industry." Unpublished.
6. Cullen, Joseph. 2013. "Measuring the Environmental Benefits of Wind-Generated Electricity: Dataset." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/pol.5.4.107.
7. Electricity Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT). 2007. "New Electric Generating Plants in Texas since 1995 (excluding renewable)." www.puc.texas.gov/industry/maps/elecmaps/gentable.pdf.
8. Holland, Stephen P., and Erin T. Mansur. 2008. "Is Real-Time Pricing Green? The Environmental Impacts of Electricity Demand Variance." Review of Economics and Statistics 90 (3): 550-61.
9. Hortacsu, Ali, and Steven L. Puller. 2008. "Understanding strategic bidding in multiunit auctions: A case study of the Texas electricity spot market." RAND Journal of Economics 39 (1): 86-114.
10. Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon. 2010. Technical Support Document: Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis-Under Executive Order 12866. U.S. Government. February.
11. Kaffine, Daniel T., Brannin J. Mcbee, and Jozef Lieskovsky. 2011. "Emissions savings from wind power generation: Evidence from Texas, California and the Upper Midwest." Colorado School of Mines Division of Economics and Business Working Paper 2012-03.
12. Katzenstein, Warren, and Jay Apt. 2009. "Air Emissions Due to Wind and Solar Power." Environmental Science & Technology 43 (2): 253-58.
13. Ladenburg, Jacob, and Alex Dubgaard. 2007. "Willingness to pay for reduced visual disamenities from offshore wind farms in Denmark." Energy Policy 35 (8): 4059-71.
14. Muller, Nicholas Z., and Robert Mendelsohn. 2011. "Efficient Pollution Regulation: Getting the Prices Right." American Economic Review 99 (5): 1714-39.
15. Newcomer, Adam, Seth A. Blumsack, Jay Apt, Lester B. Lave, and M. Granger Morgan. 2008. "Short Run Effects of a Price on Carbon Dioxide Emissions from U.S. Electric Generators." Environmental Science & Technology 42 (9): 3139-44.
16. Newey, Whitney K., and Kenneth D. West. 1987. "A Simple, Positive Semi-Definite, Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation Consistent Covariance Matrix." Econometrica 55 (3): 703-08.
17. Novan, Kevin. 2011. "Valuing the Wind: Renewable Energy Policies and Air Pollution Avoided." Unpublished.
18. Piwko, Richard, Xinggang Bai, Kara Clark, Gary Jordan, Nicholas Miller, and Joy Zimberlin. 2005. The Effects of Integrating Wind Power on Transmission System Planning, Reliability, and Operations:Report on Phase 2: System Performance Evaluation. General Electric Energy Consulting. Schenectady, March.
19. Schmalensee, Richard. 2011. "Evaluating Policies to Increase the Generation of Electricity from Renewable Energy." MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research Working Paper 2011-008.
20. Smallwood, K. Shawn, and Brian Karas. 2009. "Avian and Bat Fatality Rates at Old-Generation and Repowered Wind Turbines in California." Journal of Wildlife Management 73 (7): 1062-71.
21. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. 2011. Emissions Banking and Trading of Allowances Program Audit. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. http://www.tceq.texas.gov/airquality/banking/ebta_sb7_program.html.
22. Tol, Richard S. J. 2005. "The marginal damage costs of carbon dioxide emissions: an assessment of the uncertainties." Energy Policy 33 (16): 2064-74.
23. U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). 2008. Federal Financial Interventions and Subsidies in Energy Markets 2007. U.S. Department of Energy. Washington, DC, April.
24. U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). 2011a. Annual Energy Review 2010. U.S. Department of Energy. Washington, DC, October.
25. U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). 2011b. Electric Power Annual 2009. U.S. Department of Energy. Washington, DC, January.
26. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 1998. Latest Findings on National Air Quality: 1997 Status and Trends. Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. Research Triangle Park, December.
27. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2006. Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID), Technical report, Environmental Protection Agency.
28. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2007. The Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database for 2006 (eGRID2006) Technical Support Document. Office of Atmospheric Programs. Washington, DC, April.
29. Windustry. 2008. "Community Wind Toolbox: Purchase Power Agreements." http://www.windustry.org/community-wind/toolbox/chapter-13-power-purchase-agreement.
30. Wiser, Ryan, and Galen Barbose. 2008. Renewables Portfolio Standards in the United States: A Status Report with Data Through 2007. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Environmental Energy Technologies Division. Berkeley, April.
31. Wiser, Ryan, and Mark Bolinger. 2007. Annual Report on U.S. Wind Power Installation, Cost, and Performance Trends: 2006. U.S. Department of Energy. Washington, DC, May.