Title
Socio-economic impacts of low-carbon power generation portfolios: Strategies with and without CCS for the Netherlands
Author
Koelbl, B.S.
van den Broek, M.A.
Wilting, H.C.
Sanders, M.W.J.L.
Bulavskaya, T.
Wood, R.
Faaij, A.P.C.
van Vuuren, D.P.
Publication year
2016
Abstract
Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) could be an interesting option to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions in the Netherlands. This study compares a mitigation strategy for the Dutch power sector that includes CCS to one without on several socio-economic indicators. In particular, we calculate incremental gross value added (GVA), employment and import dependency impacts of two such low-carbon power production portfolios for the Netherlands. We combine technology specific techno-economic bottom-up data with a macro-economic multi-regional Input-Output-Table containing high sectoral detail. For the total economy, we find the differences between these scenarios to be small. Still, gross value added, and employment are lower under the CCS-inclusive strategy, while import dependency is higher. For the power sector, the differences between the scenarios are, however, considerable. Furthermore, our analysis shows that also for other sectors the differences between the scenarios could be large. For instance, a CCS-exclusive strategy leads to considerably higher GVA and employment in domestic construction services, while the CCS-inclusive strategy comes with considerably higher GVA and employment for natural gas mining and related upstream sectors. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd
Subject
Urban Mobility & Environment
SBA - Strategic Business Analysis
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Environment & Sustainability
Environment
Urbanisation
Employment
Jobs
Power sector
Netherlands
Carbon Capture and Storage, CCS
Gross Value Added
Energy security
Trade
Greenhouse gas emission mitigation
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.08.068
TNO identifier
573058
Publisher
Elsevier Ltd
ISSN
0306-2619
Source
Applied Energy, 183, 257-277
Bibliographical note
Funding Details: MOEA, Ministry of Economic Affairs
Document type
article