Browsing Research Articles (Economics) by Subject "Kusile"

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Climate change : the opportunity cost of Medupi and Kusile power stations

Blignaut, James Nelson (Energy Research Insitute, University of Cape Town, 2012-11)

Eskom has embarked on the construction of two coal-fired power stations (Medupi and Kusile) that use a new dry-cooling process with flue gas desulphurisation (FGD). While the introduction of these new technologies does ...
Estimating the opportunity cost of water for the Kusile and Medupi coal-fired electricity power plants in South Africa

Inglesi-Lotz, Roula; Blignaut, James Nelson (Energy Research Insitute, University of Cape Town, 2012-11)

In South Africa, water is considered a limited source, not only because of the country’s arid nature, but also because of the relatively skew distribution of the resource and the fact that 98% of the resource is already ...
Projecting the external health costs of a coal-fired power plant : the case of Kusile

Riekert, Johannes W.; Koch, Steven F. (Energy Research Insitute, University of Cape Town, 2012-11)

We examine an important subset of the expected health costs associated with the commissioning of Kusile, a new coal-fired electricity generation plant in South Africa. The subset of health impacts focuses on sulphur ...

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