What is the optimal amount of electricity

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Question - Texarkana Electric Company burns coal to heat the water that drives electricity-producing turbines. The table below shows the marginal benefit of annual electricity consumption and the private marginal cost of annual electricity production.

Marginal Cost and Marginal Benefit

Quantity (millions of megawatts)

MBprivate

MCprivate

MCexternal

MCsocial

1.0

$145

$85



2.0

130

90



3.0

115

95



4.0

100

100



5.0

85

105



6.0

60

110



a. What is the (apparent) optimal amount of electricity to produce each year?

b. The production of each million megawatt of electricity also produces sulfur dioxide (a precursor to acid rain). The external cost of the sulfur dioxide is $20 per million megawatt production of electricity.

Fill in the external marginal cost (MCexternal) and the social marginal cost (MCsocial) columns in the table above.

c. What is the socially optimal amount of electricity to produce if all costs and benefits are considered?

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