Cap and trade as applied to the electrical power industry?
Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2019 1:00 pmCap and trade as applied to the electrical power industry.
I believe I have an understanding of “cap and trade's general concept.
[I'm among the proponents and have a good understanding of trade policy describes within Wikipedia's “Import Certificates” article that shares the same concept].
I do not know and can less speculate as to how the cap and trade concept would be applied to environmental legislation.
I would suppose the concept as applied to the electrical power industry would be among the simplest of industrial applications?
I suppose we could identify and locate all existing or new public utility power plants.
Would we (A) Provide sealed tamper-proof devices to measure and constantly monitor the extent of those plants pollution?
Or (B) Test the existing mechanism to determine the extent of their pollution per kilowatt of power produced? If it's (B), the plan will have to be subject to unannounced inspections to determine they have not been unauthorized modified to reduce their power production costs in a manner that would increase their pollution emissions per kilowatt.
Registration of locations and potential power production of electric power plants can be mandated. But as the operators' costs per kilowatt are (due to the cap & trade policy) somewhat increased, it may be profitable for operators to evade the registration and compliance laws. This will particularly be the case for operators producing power for their own use and/or to skimming undocumented delivery of power to operator's high volume users; in such cases there's no paper trail to document that power production.
Could we ignore auxiliary power plants to service any individual buildings or only those capable of producing a minimum rate of wattage? Could “bootleg” power plants be as conceivable as “bootleg alcohol stills”? (Illegal distillation systems have and may now continue to exist). Could “bootleg power plants” be of sufficient economic and/or environmental significance as to undermine the policy applied to electrical energy production?
Respectfully, Supposn
I believe I have an understanding of “cap and trade's general concept.
[I'm among the proponents and have a good understanding of trade policy describes within Wikipedia's “Import Certificates” article that shares the same concept].
I do not know and can less speculate as to how the cap and trade concept would be applied to environmental legislation.
I would suppose the concept as applied to the electrical power industry would be among the simplest of industrial applications?
I suppose we could identify and locate all existing or new public utility power plants.
Would we (A) Provide sealed tamper-proof devices to measure and constantly monitor the extent of those plants pollution?
Or (B) Test the existing mechanism to determine the extent of their pollution per kilowatt of power produced? If it's (B), the plan will have to be subject to unannounced inspections to determine they have not been unauthorized modified to reduce their power production costs in a manner that would increase their pollution emissions per kilowatt.
Registration of locations and potential power production of electric power plants can be mandated. But as the operators' costs per kilowatt are (due to the cap & trade policy) somewhat increased, it may be profitable for operators to evade the registration and compliance laws. This will particularly be the case for operators producing power for their own use and/or to skimming undocumented delivery of power to operator's high volume users; in such cases there's no paper trail to document that power production.
Could we ignore auxiliary power plants to service any individual buildings or only those capable of producing a minimum rate of wattage? Could “bootleg” power plants be as conceivable as “bootleg alcohol stills”? (Illegal distillation systems have and may now continue to exist). Could “bootleg power plants” be of sufficient economic and/or environmental significance as to undermine the policy applied to electrical energy production?
Respectfully, Supposn