Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/223555 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8483
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Electricity transmission redistributes environmental impacts across space. We exploit episodes of high electricity transmission system congestion to explore changes in ambient concentrations of air pollutants in the eastern United States. Reducing electricity system congestion decreases ozone and PM2.5 concentrations in New England and New York and increases them in the western portions of the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland electricity market and much of the Midwestern states. We quantify the health impacts of changes in environmental pollution induced by a reduction in congestion and find overall health losses in central states such as Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio and health gains in Atlantic.
Subjects: 
electricity congestion
air quality
electricity transmission
health impacts
JEL: 
Q51
Q52
Q53
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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