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DOI	10.1073/pnas.2017936118
	The mortality impacts of current and planned coal-fired power plants in India
	Cropper M.; Cui R.; Guttikunda S.; Hultman N.; Jawahar P.; Park Y.; Yao X.; Song X.-P.
发表日期	2021
ISSN	00278424
卷号	118 期号:5
英文摘要	We examine the health implications of electricity generation from the 2018 stock of coal-fired power plants in India, as well as the health impacts of the expansion in coal-fired generation capacity expected to occur by 2030. We estimate emissions of SO2, NOX, and particulate matter 2.5 μm (PM2.5) for each plant and use a chemical transport model to estimate the impact of power plant emissions on ambient PM2.5. Concentration-response functions from the 2019 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) are used to project the impacts of changes in PM2.5 on mortality. Current plus planned plants will contribute, on average, 13% of ambient PM2.5 in India. This reflects large absolute contributions to PM2.5 in central India and parts of the Indo-Gangetic plain (up to 20 μg/m3). In the south of India, coal-fired power plants account for 20–25% of ambient PM2.5. We estimate 112,000 deaths are attributable annually to current plus planned coal-fired power plants. Not building planned plants would avoid at least 844,000 premature deaths over the life of these plants. Imposing a tax on electricity that reflects these local health benefits would incentivize the adoption of renewable energy. © 2021 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
英文关键词	Air pollution; Cobenefits of renewables; Electricity from coal; India
语种	英语
来源期刊	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/180821
作者单位	Department of Economics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States; Center for Global Sustainability, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States; Urban Emissions Info, Delhi, Goa, 403521, India; Department of Resource Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003, United States; Department of Geosciences, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Cropper M.,Cui R.,Guttikunda S.,et al. The mortality impacts of current and planned coal-fired power plants in India[J],2021,118(5).
APA	Cropper M..,Cui R..,Guttikunda S..,Hultman N..,Jawahar P..,...&Song X.-P..(2021).The mortality impacts of current and planned coal-fired power plants in India.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,118(5).
MLA	Cropper M.,et al."The mortality impacts of current and planned coal-fired power plants in India".Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 118.5(2021).