CEEH - Centre of Energy, Environment and Health

CEEH is an interdisciplinary center where seven Danish institutes have collaborated on development of an advanced model complex, which can identify the most cost effective future energy systems in Denmark. As a unique feature not only direct energy system costs due to construction/purchase, maintenance, fuel (if relevant), and amortization have been taken into account: also indirect costs due to air pollution are considered. Comprehensive calculations have been performed in CEEH on the consequences of specific emissions of particles and other air pollutants: first the dispersion and chemical transformation of the pollutants, then calculation of exposure of the population, then estimation of the implied disease incidents and premature deaths, and finally, calculation of the total health and environmental costs. For a number of energy sectors it turns out that the energy solutions, which at first hand might seem optimal are modified when the indirect environmental costs are included. For instance this is the case for the power sector where wind power and natural gas are given more favorable scores.