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Any production process, or any other activity for that matter, is connected with the general system (including the economic, social, political, environmental and other sub-systems) through various interdependencies. Only some of these interdependencies are taken into account in private decisions. The theoretical implications of the omitted interdependencies (externalities) and the general limitations to investigating their importance have been discussed in Chapter 2. This section will give an overview of the externalities most relevant for the comparison of social profitability between conventional and alternative (wind or photovoltaic) electricity generation.
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Hohmeyer, O. (1988). External Effects of Energy Systems. In: Social Costs of Energy Consumption. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83499-8_4
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