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02 novembre 2007

Invitation to a Workshop on Social Costs of Electricity Generation, Brussels, 18/02/08

Par Valérie Blanchot-Courtois le 2 novembre 2007 | (0) Commentaires

The first workshop of the EC funded project CASES (Cost Assessment for Sustainable Energy Markets) will focus on internal (private) and external costs of electricity generation and supply in and outside the European Union.

Date: 18 February 2008

Venue: Representation of Baden-Württemberg to the EU Rue Belliard 60-62, phone: +32.2.741.77.11B-1040 Brussels, Belgium

The methodology to estimate internal and external costs, and the results of applying this methodology will be presented and discussed.

Agenda for the workshop : Téléchargement CASES_Stakeholder_Invitation.pdf

Please confirm your intention to participate with a short email to Philipp.Preiss@ier.uni-stuttgart.de indicating whether you also plan to attend the dinner buffet after the meeting.

The costs of electricity generation and distribution are the most important criteria shaping decisions within the electricity system. However, the influence on the environment and human health due to climate change, air pollution, emissions to water and soil, and in addition security of energy supply should also be adequately taken into account. This includes impacts from the whole life cycle of electricity supply and not only the operation of a power plant. Thus results from an LCI (Life Cycle Inventory) assessment have to be used. To be able to compare the different impacts of different technologies and systems, the impacts (risks, damage) have to be transformed in a common unit. The ‘ExternE’ methodology is used to weight the, mostly site depended, impacts according to the preferences of the society. As result damage costs, which are mostly external costs are obtained. The sum of the ‘private’ costs and external costs are the so called social costs. For example, the social costs of an innovative renewable technology may be competitive or even smaller than the social costs of a conventional fossil fuelled technology, even if private costs are higher.

The technological progress offers solutions for the challenge of a more sustainable energy supply. The comparison of internal and external cost can help to identify the technologies mix to be aspired.

The stakeholder workshop will include:

• Internal cost assessment techniques and results
• LCI assessment techniques and results
• Damage costs / external cost assessment techniques and results
• Energy supply externalities
• How to use internal and external costs to achieve a more “sustainable development”.