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Employment benefits of electricity generation: A comparative assessment of lignite and natural gas power plants in Greece

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dc.contributor.author Tourkolias, C en
dc.contributor.author Mirasgedis, S en
dc.contributor.author Damigos, D en
dc.contributor.author Diakoulaki, D en
dc.date.accessioned 2014-03-01T01:30:20Z
dc.date.available 2014-03-01T01:30:20Z
dc.date.issued 2009 en
dc.identifier.issn 0301-4215 en
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.lib.ntua.gr/xmlui/handle/123456789/19553
dc.subject Cost-benefit analysis en
dc.subject Employment benefits en
dc.subject Input-output analysis en
dc.subject.classification Energy & Fuels en
dc.subject.classification Environmental Sciences en
dc.subject.classification Environmental Studies en
dc.subject.other Comparative assessment en
dc.subject.other Electricity generation en
dc.subject.other Employment effects en
dc.subject.other Energy project en
dc.subject.other Fuel cycle en
dc.subject.other Input-output en
dc.subject.other Input-output analysis en
dc.subject.other Integrated approach en
dc.subject.other Natural gas fired power plants en
dc.subject.other Natural gas power plants en
dc.subject.other Opportunity costs en
dc.subject.other Power-generation technologies en
dc.subject.other Public expenditures en
dc.subject.other Cost effectiveness en
dc.subject.other Electric generators en
dc.subject.other Employment en
dc.subject.other Forestry en
dc.subject.other Fossil fuel power plants en
dc.subject.other Gas industry en
dc.subject.other Gas plants en
dc.subject.other Lignite en
dc.subject.other Natural gas en
dc.subject.other Statistics en
dc.subject.other Cost benefit analysis en
dc.subject.other cost-benefit analysis en
dc.subject.other electricity en
dc.subject.other electricity generation en
dc.subject.other energy use en
dc.subject.other input-output analysis en
dc.subject.other lignite en
dc.subject.other natural gas en
dc.subject.other power plant en
dc.subject.other Eurasia en
dc.subject.other Europe en
dc.subject.other Greece en
dc.subject.other Southern Europe en
dc.title Employment benefits of electricity generation: A comparative assessment of lignite and natural gas power plants in Greece en
heal.type journalArticle en
heal.identifier.primary 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.05.015 en
heal.identifier.secondary http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2009.05.015 en
heal.language English en
heal.publicationDate 2009 en
heal.abstract This paper aims at developing an integrated approach for estimating the employment benefits associated with power-generation technologies. The proposed approach exploits the input-output methodology for estimating the direct, indirect and induced employment effects associated with the energy project in question, as well as two different valuation techniques, namely the "opportunity cost of labour" approach and the "public expenditures" approach, for expressing these effects in monetary terms. This framework has been implemented to estimate the employment benefits resulting from the development of a lignite-fired and a natural gas-fired power plant in Greece, taking into account all the stages of the corresponding fuel cycles that are undertaken domestically. The results of the analysis clearly show that lignite-fired electricity generation results in significant employment benefits amounting to 2.9-3.5 is an element of/MWh in the basic scenario. On the other hand, the employment benefits associated with the examined natural gas unit were estimated at 0.4-0.6 is an element of/MWh in the basic scenario. It is also worth mentioning that the significant environmental externalities of the lignite-fired electricity in Greece that have been presented in a number of studies can only be partially compensated by the estimated employment benefits. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. en
heal.publisher ELSEVIER SCI LTD en
heal.journalName Energy Policy en
dc.identifier.doi 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.05.015 en
dc.identifier.isi ISI:000270646700047 en
dc.identifier.volume 37 en
dc.identifier.issue 10 en
dc.identifier.spage 4155 en
dc.identifier.epage 4166 en


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