1. World problems
  2. Prohibitive cost of electricity

Prohibitive cost of electricity

  • High electricity costs

Incidence

Scrubbing of carbon dioxide from power station chimney exhausts typically costs $150 to $200 per ton of carbon removed. The cost of scrubbing at an oil-fired power plant would probably increase the cost of electricity by 50 to 100%.

Broader

Excessive costs
Unpresentable

Aggravates

Aggravated by

Energy leaks
Presentable
Energy monopolies
Unpresentable

Related

Strategy

Value

Prohibition
Yet to rate
High-mindedness
Yet to rate
Costliness
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #7: Affordable and Clean EnergySustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and Production

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Commerce » Purchasing, supplying
  • Technology » Electricity
  • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    G8518
    DOCID
    11785180
    D7NID
    144459
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020