Environmental cost-benefit analysis and the EU (European Union) Industrial Emissions Directive Exploring the societal efficiency of a DeNOx retrofit at a coal-fired power plant》.pdf

Energy 68 (2014) 125e139 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Energy journal homepage: www.els /locate/energy Environmental cost-benefit analysis and the EU (European Union) Industrial Emissions Directive: Exploring the societal efficiency of a DeNOx retrofit at a coal-fired power plant * 1 Till M. Bachmann , Jonathan van der Kamp European Institute for Energy Research, Emmy-Noether-Str. 11, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Aiming to reduce potentially harmful emissions to the environment, the recent European IED (Industrial Received 23 May 2013 Emissions Directive) requires that industrial installations are equipped with BAT (best available tech- Received in revised form niques). However, flexibility mechanisms are foreseen to avoid inefficiencies. One such derogation allows 21 January 2014 competent authorities to set less strict emission limit values if the installation and operation of BAT leads Accepted 13 February 2014 Available online 28 March 2014 to disproportionate costs (i.e. abatement costs exceed related environmental benefits). The current paper aims to present an approach to quantify monetised environmental benefits related to reductions in air pollutant emissions in this context. The tool EcoSenseWeb is applied to the case of a