The complexity facing today's energ planners and decision-makers, particularly in electricity sector, has increased. They must tak into account many elements in selecting technologies and strategies that will impact near terr energy development and applications in their countries. While cost remain a key factol tradeoffs between the demand of environmental protection and economic development will hav to be made This fact, together with the needs of many countries to define their energy an electricity programs in a sustainable manner, has resulted in a growing interest in th applications of improved data, tools, and techniques for comparative assessment of differer electricity generation options. Particularly from an environmental and a human health point vieIA The program on Data Bases and Methodologies for Comparative Assessment of Different Energy Sources for Electricity Generation, is short DECADES was developed. For DECADES the types of technology databases were developed using PARADOX formar are : RTDB (Reference Technology Data Bases), SCDB (Country Specific Data Base), VSDB ? (vendor Specific Data Base), TOXDB (Toxicology Data Base) and HEIES (Health and Environmental Impact of Energy System). These data will be used in analytical software (DECPAC) for evaluating the always existing tradeoffs between technical, economic, and environmental features including externalities (external cost) of different electricity generation technologies. Penulis : Arnold Y Soetrisnanto, Farid Kresna, M. Nasrullah
