Effects of increasing indigenous coal share in Turkey’s electricity generation mix on key economic and environmental indicators: An extended input–output analysis

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Aydın L.

Energy Exploration and Exploitation, vol.36, no.2, pp.230-245, 2018 (SCI-Expanded) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 36 Issue: 2
  • Publication Date: 2018
  • Doi Number: 10.1177/0144598717737694
  • Journal Name: Energy Exploration and Exploitation
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.230-245
  • Keywords: air pollution, greenhouse gases, Indigenous coal use, input–output analysis, Turkey’s economy
  • Ankara University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017.The aim of this paper is to evaluate the economic and environmental effects of increasing indigenous coal share in electricity generation by using extended input–output analysis. The policy scenario is a $1 million increase in demand for investment in the coal mining sector. In order to analyze this policy option, we specifically developed an extended input–output analysis associated with disaggregating the electricity sector into electricity generation transmission and distribution and the mining sector into coal and oil–gas mining. Furthermore, we use a range of key economic and environmental indicators to evaluate the effects of increasing indigenous coal production on these indicators. The results indicate that the $1 million increase in final demand for indigenous coal produces an increase in economic output for all sectors of $1,389,241 and an increase in total greenhouse gases of 229,572 CO2-equivalents (kg CO2-e) as well.