This collaboration ensures that processes and technologies align with shared goals, creating efficiencies and driving innovation.. 5.
Shutting them down would cause substantial unemployment and hardship.In the United States alone there are 260 gigawatts of operating coal.
Repowering the existing coal power plants using advanced heat sources presents a key political opportunity to garner bipartisan support for climate action in a way that maintains jobs, socio-economic benefits and tax revenues in those communities.. Another key point to consider is that the majority of the existing, global coal fleet is just fourteen years old, representing a trillion dollars of unrecovered capital.The prospect of the retirement of that fleet is highly unattractive for most of those owners and investors.However, if we repower the existing coal power plants with advanced heat sources instead of shutting them down, the plants will likely run at a much higher capacity factor than they do today and at lower cost.
This will make them even more profitable.There will also be the potential to add other value driving services, such as atmospheric carbon removal, as well as hydrogen production with the cooling towers.
All of this work would turn these communities into clean energy hubs that will operate for decades to come..
The future of coal., Head of Sustainability and Building Physics.
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