Journal
ENERGY POLICY
Volume 35, Issue 5, Pages 2811-2825Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2006.10.006
Keywords
wind energy; externalities; environmental valuation
Funding
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/C516301/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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This paper uses cost-benefit analysis to assess the economic feasibility of a large scale windfarm project, taking into account positive and negative externalities of generation. The issue of non-use value (i.e. a welfare change among those who will never visit the area and see the windfarm) is addressed with reference to the study by Bergmann et al. [2006. Valuing the attributes of renewable energy investments. Energy Policy 34, 1004-1014], which determined a social cost of 19.40 pound per household for the non-use disamenity associated with a large scale windfarm in Scotland. This paper demonstrates the extent to which this estimate affects the economic feasibility of the project. We find that for all but one of the 16 scenarios considered, the project returns a positive net present value despite the inclusion of this non-use value, thus suggesting that in these cases the windfarm delivers a net welfare gain to society. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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