Total Social Costs and Benefits of Long-Distance Hydropower Transmission.

ABSTRACT: Increasing amounts of hydropower are being exported from Canada to the northern United States. Recently proposed projects would increase transmission capacity to U.S. population centers without increasing generation. This avoids generation-side impacts from hydroelectric development and introduces power to the U.S. energy mix that is dispatchable, unlike wind and solar, with greenhouse gas emissions generally lower than those of fossil fuels. There is, however, a lack of analysis comparing high upfront capital costs to social benefits and controversy over valuation of social costs of hydropower from existing generation given the negligible marginal cost of production. This analysis evaluates direct and indirect costs in comparison to alternatives for a 1250 MW transmission line from Canada

SUBMITTER: Calder RSD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9775194 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature