Costing Studies & Economic Analysis

Rubin, E.S., J.E. Davison, and H.J. Herzog, "The Cost of CO2 Capture and Storage," International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, Volume 40, pp 378-400, September (2015). Note: Subscription may be required to view article <Link to online journal article>

Clark, V. "An analysis of how climate policies and the threat of stranded fossil fuel assets incentivize CCS deployment," M.I.T. Masters Thesis, May (2015). <PDF>

Clark, V. and H. Herzog, "Can “stranded” fossil fuel reserves drive CCS deployment?," Energy Procedia, Vol 63, pp 7261-7271, (2014). <PDF>

Raveendran, S.P., "The Role of CCS as a Mitigation Technology and Challenges to its Commercialization," M.I.T. Masters Thesis, May (2013). <PDF>

Ereira, E., H. Herzog, and M. Webster, "Assessing Early Investments in Carbon Capture and Storage Technology under Uncertaintys," presented at the 10th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September (2010). <PDF>

Ereira, E.C., "Assessing Early Investments in Low Carbon Technologies under Uncertainty: The Case of Carbon Capture and Storage," M.I.T. Masters Thesis, June (2010). <PDF>

Hildebrand, A.N., "Strategies for Demonstration and Early Deployment of Carbon Capture and Storage: A Technical and Economic Assessment of Capture Percentage," M.I.T. Masters Thesis, May (2009). <PDF>

Hamilton, M., H. Herzog and J. Parsons, "Cost and U.S. Public Policy for New Coal Power Plants with Carbon Capture and Sequestration," Energy Procedia, Vol 1; Issue 1, pp 4487-4494, Feb (2009). <PDF>

Hildebrand, A.N. and H.J. Herzog, "Optimization of Carbon Capture Percentage for Technical and Economic Impact of Near-Term CCS Implementation at Coal-Fired Power Plants," Energy Procedia, Vol 1: Issue 1, pp 4135-4142, Feb (2009). <PDF>

Shu, G., M. Webster and H. Herzog, "Scenario Analysis of Carbon Capture and Sequestration Generation Dispatch in the Western U.S. Electricity System," Energy Procedia, Vol 1: Issue 1, pp 4119-4126, Feb (2009). <PDF>

Bohm, M.C., H.J. Herzog, J.E. Parsons and R.C. Sekar, "Capture-ready coal plants - Options, technologies and economics," International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, Vol 1, pages 113-120 (2007). <PDF>

Sekar, R.C., J.E. Parsons, H.J. Herzog and H.D. Jacoby, "Future carbon regulations and current investments in alternative coal-fired power plant technologies," Energy Policy 35: 1064–1074 (2007).

McFarland, J.R.and H.J. Herzog, "Incorporating Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies in Integrated Assessment Models," Energy Economics 28: 632-52 (2006). <PDF>

Bohm, M., H. Herzog, J. Parsons, R. Sekar, "Capture-Ready Coal Plants - Options, Technologies and Economics,"  presented at the 8th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, Trondheim, Norway, June (2006). <PDF>

Bohm, M.C., "Capture-Ready Power Plants - Options, Technologies and Economics," M.I.T. Masters Thesis, (2006). <PDF>

Sekar, R.C., J.E. Parsons, H.J. Herzog & H.D. Jacoby, "Future Carbon Regulations and Current Investments in Alternative Coal-Fired Power Plant Designs," MIT Joint Program on the Science & Policy of Climate Change Report Number 129, December (2005). <PDF>

Sekar, R.C., "Carbon Dioxide Capture from Coal-Fired Power Plants: A Real Options Analysis," M.I.T. Masters Thesis, May (2005). <PDF>

Sekar, R.C., "Carbon Dioxide Capture from Coal-Fired Power Plants: A Real Options Analysis," M.I.T. LFEE 2005-002 RP, May (2005). <PDF>

McFarland, J.R., H.J. Herzog and H. Jacoby, "The Future of Coal Consumption in a Carbon Constrained World," Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-7), Vancouver, Canada, E.S. Rubin, D.W. Keith and C.F. Gilboy (eds.), Elsevier, pp 1563-1568, September (2005). <PDF>

McFarland, J.R., J.M. Reilly, and H.J. Herzog, "Representing Energy Technologies in Top-down Economic Models using Bottom-up Information," Energy Economics, Vol 26, Issue 4, pp 685-707 (2004). <PDF>

McFarland, J.R. and H.J. Herzog, "Incorporating Carbon Capture and Storage Technologies in Integrated Assessment Models," presented at the EMF Workshop on Climatic Change Impacts and Integrated Assessments, Snowmass, Colorado, July 28-August 7 (2003). <PDF>

Herzog, H., K. Caldeira and J. Reilly, "An Issue of Permanence: Assessing the Effectiveness of Temporary Carbon Storage," Climatic Change, Vol 59, No 3, pp 293-310, August (2003). <PDF>

Heddle, G., H. Herzog and M. Klett, "The Economics of CO2 Storage," M.I.T. LFEE 2003-003 RP, August (2003).<PDF>

Bock, B.R., R.G. Rhudy, and H.J. Herzog, "CO2 Storage and Sink Enhancements: Developing Comparable Economics," Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-6), Volume II, J. Gale and Y. Kaya (Eds.), Elsevier, pp 1101-1106, (2003). <PDF>

McFarland, J.R., H.J. Herzog, and J.M. Reilly, "Economic Modeling of the Global Adoption of Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies," Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-6), Volume II, J. Gale and Y. Kaya (Eds.), Elsevier, pp 1083-1088, (2003). <PDF>

McFarland, J., H. Herzog, J. Reilly, and H. Jacoby, "Economic Modeling of Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies," presented at the First National Conference on Carbon Sequestration, Washington, DC, May 14-17 (2001). <PDF>

Herzog, H. "The Economics of CO2 Separation and Capture," Technology, vol 7, supplement 1, pp 13-23 (2000). <PDF>

Biggs, S., H. Herzog, J. Reilly, and H. Jacoby, "Economic Modeling of CO2 Capture and Sequestration," Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-5), Cairns, Australia, D.J. Williams, R.A. Durie, P. McMullan, C.A.J. Paulson and A.Y. Smith (eds.), CSIRO Publishing, pp 973-978, (2001). <PDF>

David, J. and H. Herzog, "The Cost of Carbon Capture," Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies (GHGT-5), Cairns, Australia, D.J. Williams, R.A. Durie, P. McMullan, C.A.J. Paulson and A.Y. Smith (eds.), CSIRO, pp 985-990, (2001). <PDF>

Biggs, S.D., "Sequestering Carbon from Power Plants: The Jury is Still Out," M.I.T. Masters Thesis, June (2000). <PDF>

David, J., "Economic Evaluation of Leading Technology Options for Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide," M.I.T. Masters Thesis, June (2000). <PDF>