The Cost of Climate Pollution

Delaware Uses SC-GHG to Assess Offshore Wind Procurement Options

HDelaware Internal Guidance Investment/Procurement February 2022

• Application

  Assessing the social value of offshore wind procurement.

• Date

  February 2022

• Details

  In February 2022, the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) asked the University of Delaware’s Special Initiative on Offshore Wind published a report looking at the state's options for offshore wind procurement. The report converts the IWG's SC-GHG into a cost per megawatt hour. 1 . This value is used to value the benefits of offshore wind displacing polluting generators. 2 This is added to a value of health benefits for a total socail cost. 3

• SCC Value(s)

  $93 - $122 per MWh based on 2021 IWG values.

1. Special Initiative for Offshore Wind at the University of Delaware, Offshore Wind Procurement Options for Delaware (Feb. 27, 2022) at 16-17. ↩︎
2. Id. at 17. ↩︎
3. Id. ↩︎

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