Del| NERI will continue
to be in charge of the research-based consultancy
services for the Ministry of the Environment
within the field of species, hunting and
game administration. This is now evident
after the task has been in an EU tender.
THE FOX IS ONE OF THE SPECIES THAT NERI
WILL CONTINUE TO BE CONCERNED WITH.
The National Environmental Research Institute
(NERI), Aarhus University, will continue
to be in charge of the research-based consultancy
services for the Ministry of the Environment
within the field of species, hunting and
game administration. This is now evident
after the task has been in an EU tender.
The tender was divided
into two: one tender for birds and one tender
for mammals (terrestrial mammals and marine
mammals) with an annual framework of 6 mill.
DKK for birds and 4 mill. DKK for mammals.
In addition to this and subject to previous
arrangement, the Ministry of the Environment
can ask for or NERI can suggest other tasks
which can be solved within an extra annual
framework of 1 mill. DKK each for birds
and mammals, respectively.
To start with, it is
a two-year tender, but the Ministry of the
Environment may request an extension of
at least two years. Director of department,
Aksel Bo Madsen is pleased that NERI has
been assigned this task:
”We really look forward
to continuing the good cooperation which
NERI has had with the Ministry of the Environment
during the past decades," he says.
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No. 263: Socio economic
analysis of environmental optimisation of
natural gas fired engines.
Jørgensen, S.L.
& Møller, F. 2011: Socio economic
analysis of environmental optimisation of
natural gas fired engines. National Environmental
Research institute, Aarhus University. 20
pp. – Research Notes from NERI No. 263.
Summary
This report assess the economic consequences
of different CHP-engine (Combined Heat and
Power production) settings based on results
found in Kvist et al. (2010), which also
contains the conclusions of this report.
The purpose of changing engine setting is
to obtain lower levels of NOx emissions.
The economic analysis is divided into a
budget economic analysis and a welfare economic
analysis of the effects of changing the
gas engine settings. Furthermore, the welfare
economic effects of geographical location
of the gas engine are assessed. The analysis
assumes that the total electricity and heat
production from engines and boilers will
be unchanged. That is, if changed engine
settings cause a lower heat production on
engines heat production on boilers will
be increased.
The budget economic
analysis shows that in general there is
a trade off between NOx emissions and economic
costs. Reduction of NOx emissions leads
in most cases to the higher economic cost.
Only for one engine setting a decrease in
NOx emissions results in lower economic
costs. This is due to the fact that in this
case there will be produced more heat on
engines, which means that cost of heat production
on boilers can be reduced.
The welfare economic
analysis also takes the derived effects
of changing the engine settings into account.
That is, also the value of emission changes
is included in the analysis. Over and above
the consequences for NOx emissions changed
engine settings also have consequences for
other air emissions that might have health
effects and changed engine settings also
have climate gas effects. The welfare economic
analysis.
