He is confident, however, that even
for traditional coal plants the cost of CCS can be reduced to $ 20 per ton.
Among the details: a design that has a lower cost than traditional coal plants, capability to be load - following, and with an efficiency higher than 40 %, well above the current average of 33 %
for a traditional coal plant.
Not exact matches
But his prescription was different than those of Mr. Barnes and Dr. Hansen, focusing instead on an aggressive policy to deploy new energy technologies
for electricity and transportation and a quick phaseout of
traditional coal - burning power
plants.
For a
traditional pulverized
coal plant the gas
coal spread is such these days that gas in a CC is usually cheaper then
coal in a
traditional pulverized
coal plant.
In the
traditional model of a national electricity system — widely used
for more than 50 years — large conventional gas,
coal and nuclear generation
plants supply large centres of demand.