In recent years, several state public utility commissions have required electric utilities within their respective jurisdictions to incorporate predetermined external environmental costs into fuel choice selection decisions for electric generation. As a starting point, this paper models the fuel choice selection decisions taken by electric utilities in the United States between the years 1966-1992 in order to identify the relevant empirical determinants. Next, a range of external environmental costs for greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide or $\rm CO\sb2)$ are then imposed on the total costs for fossil-fuel electric generation. The fuel choices with the internalized environmental costs are then compared to the estimated fuel choices without environmental costs to determine overall and dynamic differences in fuel selection. Effects and differences in utility rates between selected and estimated fuel choices are also considered. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-07, Section: A, page: 2779. / Major Professor: E. Ray Canterbery. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1995.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_77480 |
| Contributors | Dismukes, David Ethan., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 152 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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