Estimation of marginal abatement costs for undesirable outputs in India's power generation sector: An output distance function approach.



Table A6: The Marginal Abatement Costs for Air-borne Pollutants from various Studies

Study

Period

Sample

CO2

SOX

NOx

TSP

Coggins and

Swinton

1990-92

Coal Burning Utilities in
Wisconsin

-

$175.7 - $326.7

-

-

Gollop and
Roberts

1973-79

Fossil fueled electric
generation in US

-

$141 - $1226

-

-

Kwon & Yun

1990-95

Bunker-C and coal
power plants in Korea

$2.38

$194.1

$91.69

$9676.44

Kumar

1992-93

Coal burning utilities in
India

-

-

-

Rs.326.18*

Our Study

1990-2000

Thermal power plants in

eastern India_____________

Rs.3380.59 #

Rs.2401.99 @

-

-

-

Note:   * this shadow price value is for PM10 and the unit is Rs. per kg.

# This pertains to Model-1 and @ for Model-2

Kwon and Yun’s estimates assume the exchange rate to be 1600 won per dollar.

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