Employment benefits of electricity generation: A comparative assessment of lignite and natural gas power plants in Greece
Employment benefits of electricity generation: A comparative assessment of lignite and natural gas power plants in Greece
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发电的就业效益：希腊褐煤和天然气发电厂的比较评估
DOI：
10.1016/j.enpol.2009.05.015
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发表时间：
2009
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9
通讯作者：
D. Diakoulaki
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作者：
C. Tourkolias;S. Mirasgedis;D. Damigos;D. Diakoulaki
本文旨在开发一种估计与发电技术相关的就业利益的综合方法。拟议的办法利用投入产出方法估算与有关能源项目有关的直接、间接和诱发就业影响，并利用两种不同的估值方法，即“劳动力机会成本”方法和“公共支出”方法，以货币形式表达这些影响。实施这一框架是为了估计在希腊开发褐煤发电厂和天然气发电厂所产生的就业效益，同时考虑到国内进行的相应燃料循环的所有阶段。分析结果清楚地表明，在基本情景下，褐煤发电产生了相当大的就业效益，达到2.9-3.5欧元/兆瓦时。另一方面，在基本情景下，与所检查的天然气装置相关的就业福利估计为0.4-0.6欧元/兆瓦时。还值得一提的是，在一些研究中提出的希腊褐煤发电的重大环境外部性只能通过估计的就业惠益得到部分补偿。
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€/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€/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.