Close examination of past power industry options and choices suggests that load growth can be met with just over half the fossil fuel and pollution associated with
conventional central generation.
Meeting the world's growing appetite for electric power with
conventional central generation will severely tax capital markets, fossil fuel markets, and the global environment.
We have attempted to frame the consequences of meeting energy load growth with
conventional central generation or deploying decentralized generation that recycles waste energy.
Not exact matches
Steve has particular expertise in evaluating the economics of
conventional and renewable energy resources — both
central station and distributed
generation — within the context of developing technologies, market design and environmental regulations.
It portrays recent experiences in Spain and the US showing that CST could become a key renewable energy technology that is able to provide an alternative to
conventional thermal power
generation based on the
central utility model.
UBS says the
central European market is in rapid decline because of falling demand, the construction of too much
conventional generation capacity, and a low Co2 price.
However we believe the
conventional «
central generation paradigm» is based on last century's technology.