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Prohibitive cost of electricity
Name(s):
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
Prohibitive costs for businesses
Prohibitive cost of basic services
Related
Failure to take account of externalities of systems
Aggravates
Inadequate acclimatization of buildings
Aggravated by
Energy leaks
Energy monopolies
Prohibitive cost of fuel
Economically inefficient regulations
Inadequate energy supply infrastructure
Prohibitive cost of nuclear power plants
Prohibitive costs of purification of effluents and emissions
Inequality in distribution of energy resources among countries
Strategy(ies)
Developing alternative electricity
Value(s)
High-mindedness
High-spiritedness
Costliness
Prohibition
Type
(E) Emanations of other problems