Strategies for compensating for higher costs of geothermal electricity with environmental benefits
Strategies for compensating for higher costs of geothermal electricity with environmental benefits
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通过环境效益补偿地热发电较高成本的策略
DOI：
10.1016/s0375-6505(99)00018-8
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发表时间：
1999
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影响因子：
3.9
通讯作者：
H. Niitsuma
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作者：
H. Murphy;H. Niitsuma
地热发电在1980年代高速增长之后，在1990年代中期和后期有所减缓。虽然日本、印度尼西亚和菲律宾的地热增长由于政府的支持政策而保持在较高水平，但欧洲和北美大部分地区的地热发电量持平或减少。煤炭和天然气价格低廉，加上放松管制，意味着在世界许多地方，新的燃料发电厂的发电成本可以是新地热发电成本的一半。削减成本是必须的，但不太可能靠削减成本来缩小价格差距。人们普遍认为，地热能生产是环境清洁的，但这并不是毫无疑问的，需要完全实现回注。讨论了将地热的环境优势货币化的战略，包括碳税。
After very high growth in the 1980s, geothermal electricity production has slowed in the mid- and late-1990s. While Japanese, Indonesian and Philippine geothermal growth has remained high as a consequence of supportive government policies, geothermal electricity production has been flat or reduced in much of Europe and North America. Low prices for coal and natural gas, combined with deregulation, means that in much of the world electricity from new fuel-burning electricity plants can be provided at half the cost of new geothermal electricity. Cost-cutting must be pursued, but is unlikely to close the price gap by itself. Geothermal production is widely perceived as being environmentally clean, but this is not unambiguously true, and requires reinjection to be fully realized. Strategies for monetizing the environmental advantages of geothermal, including the carbon tax, are discussed.