Publications
Case studies were completed for Andhra Pradesh (AP) and Bihar in India in 1998, as part of an activity on India: Environmental Issues in The Power Sector. A final report was issued as ESMAP Report No. 205/98 in June 1998.
The case studies identified the environmental impacts of alternative options for the development of the power sector in those states. In particular, they estimated the atmospheric emissions of particulate matter and oxides of sulphur and nitrogen, as well as the production of ash and the preemption of land. But the case studies gave only limited attention to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and global warming issues, by tracking CO2 and including some preliminary analysis of the possible effects of a carbon tax. A detailed discussion of the methodology used in the case studies, including a description of the set of analytical tools and the decision-making process that were developed for the case studies under EIPS, was published in India: Environmental Issues in The Power Sector, Manual for Environmental Decision Making, ESMAP Report No. 2 13/99 in June 1999.
This study extends the previous work through applying a global overlay by (i) including GHG emission impacts; (ii) including GHG mitigation analysis; and (iii) estimating the incremental costs of GHG reduction. The global overlay was conducted in accordance with the World Bank's Guidelines for Climate Change Global Overlays (Environment Department Paper No. 047, Climate Change Series, February 1997).
ESMAP. 2001. Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in the Power Sector: Case Studies from India. Report 237/01. Washington, DC: World Bank.
