A push for cleaner industrial production - EEB

A PUSH FOR CLEANER INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION
The Solution: Small Combustion Installations under IPPC
Another solution to current high levels
of NOx is to broaden the scope of IPPC
to capture small combustion installations
with a capacity of less than 50
MW. This will bring IPPC in line with the
EU Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading
Directive and require these installations
to apply for BAT-based permits. Many of
these installations are already covered
Contribution to total industrial
emissions
Potential reductions with application
of best performing
abatement measures
AEAT, 2007a, Table 5.3, Table 5.2
NOx SO 2
PM
25% 10% 15%
83% 95% 95%
by permitting regimes at the national level, thus competent authorities are already engaged and
additional administrative costs would be limited. The extension would serve to level the playing
field for industrial actors relying on on-site energy generation.
Potential Benefits
In a scenario where small combustion installations implement best performing abatement measures,
potential benefits include significant reductions in key pollutants. Estimated health benefits
could then be in the range of € 2.6 billion per year (without including environmental benefits), at
an estimated cost to industry of € 989 million (AEAT, 2007a).
Estimated net benefit is €1.6 billion per year.
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