Externalités écologiques

An ‘externality’ exists when one party’s activities affect the life or activities of the other parties in ways that are not factored into the production and pricing decisions of the first party. Such impacts may be positive or negative. With respect to utility activities, if costs are imposed on society that are not counted in electricity resource [..]

The environmental costs to society of electricity generation which are not reflected in the utility's cost of producing electricity or the price paid by customers to consume electricity. Environm [..]

In utility resource planning, the value or cost of what is lost or damaged when power facilities adversely affect the well being of humans or the environment, but which is not normally factored into  production and pricing policy.  Externalities can be adverse, such as the effects on health of air pollution from coal plants; or positive, such as th [..]

Economic concept of uncompensated environmental effects of production and consumption that affect consumer utility and enterprise cost outside the market mechanism. As a consequence of negative extern [..]