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Regulators who have embraced the goal of accounting for environmental externalities in utility resource planning have found themselves confronted with a task of daunting complexity. A multitude of environmental impacts require evaluation. Questions about causation abound. Many impacts cannot be considered on a generic basis, and others may be truly unique to a particular generating facility.
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Burrington, S.H. (1991). A Comparison Of Methods Used By Regulators To Account For External Costs. In: Hohmeyer, O., Ottinger, R.L. (eds) External Environmental Costs of Electric Power. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76712-8_26
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