The Future of Clean Coal: The Impact of New Technologies and Legislation on the Economics of Coal-Fired Power Generation
Scripp Business Insights, July 2007, Pages: 125
Coal accounts for 40% of global electricity supply and the proportion is set to remain steady, even as global generating capacity rises. Coal-fired generating capacity may double by 2030, which would have a severe effect on carbon dioxide emissions unless new, cleaner technologies can be implemented.
‘The Future of Clean Coal: The Impact of New Technologies and Legislation on the Economics of Coal-Fired Power Generation’ is a new management report that analyses the state of modern coal-fired power generation. It analyses the technologies, efficiency and economics of conventional coal-fired power generation, emission control systems and advanced/zero emission systems. It analyses the key drivers of the new technologies and forecasts the impact of clean coal technologies on the cost of power compared to both conventional coal-fired power generation and renewable energy. Assess how new technologies will affect coal-fired power generation in the short, medium and long term with this new report.
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Some key findings from this report...
-By 2030 coal will still supply close to 40% of global electricity.
-This will lead to an increase in global coal-fired capacity by between 50% and 100%.
-Coal capacity in China may reach 660GW in China by 2020 and 160GW in India. The US is likely to add between 100GW and 150GW of new capacity by 2030, whilst demand is likely to fall within the EU.
-Short term demands for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions (to 2020) will be met by increased use of highly efficient coal-fired power plants based on supercritical and ultrasupercritical pulverized coal technology.
-Carbon dioxide capture and sequestration technologies will enter the market beyond 2020, allowing virtually zero emission coal-fired plants to be built. The rate of their introduction will depend on global agreement on greenhouse gas control.
-Coal-fired power generation remains competitive with the best renewable technologies, even after accounting for the costs of carbon capture technology.
The Future of Clean Coal
Coal accounts for 40% of global electricity supply and the proportion is set to remain steady, even as global generating capacity rises. Coal-fired generating capacity may double by 2030, which would have a severe effect on carbon dioxide emissions unless new, cleaner technologies can be implemented.
The Future of Clean Coal: The impact of new technologies and legislation on the economics of coal-fired power generation is a new management report that analyses the state of modern coal-fired power generation. It analyses the technologies, efficiency and economics of conventional coal-fired power generation, emission control systems and advanced/zero emission systems. It analyses the key drivers of the new technologies and forecasts the impact of clean coal technologies on the cost of power compared to both conventional coal-fired power generation and renewable energy.
Assess how new technologies will affect coal-fired power generation in the short, medium and long term with this new report.
This new report will enable you to...
-Benchmark new and conventional coal-fired power generation systems with this report’s detailed analysis of the comparative economics of coal-fired power generation technologies with and without carbon capture and by use of different types of coal in terms of capital costs and cost of electricity.
-Predict the size and type of future growth in coal-fired power generation with the forecasts for coal-fired generating capacity, the emergence of new markets and the comparative attractiveness of new and conventional technologies contained in this report.
-Understand how legislation governing emissions will impact on the market attractiveness of clean coal with this report’s examination of the economic impact of new legislation on emissions of carbon dioxide and other pollutants.
Key issues examined by this new report...
-Coal demand. By 2030, forecasts vary from coal demand growing by 50% to doubling – giving real impetus for the development of economically attractive clean coal technologies.
-Carbon capture. Carbon sequestration technologies remain at thedevelopment/demonstration stage and so their competitiveness is not clear although plant efficiency is reduced.
-Developed vs emerging economies. Coal demand is forecast to be much higher in the future from key developing economies such as China and India. However, emissions controls are generally less onerous and and less strictly policed in developing countries.
-Coal carbon capture vs renewable technologies. The addition of carbon capture drives up the cost of power from coal plants making other power technologies increasingly competitive – notably nuclear, but also hydro and wind power.
Some key questions answered by this new report...
-What is the future timeline for commercial development of advanced and zero emission technologies?
-How do conventional and clean coal technologies compare in terms of capital costs and the cost of electricity?
-What impact do types of gasifier and type of coal have on plant efficiency?
-How will demand for coal change over the medium term and which countries will be driving increased consumption?
-What are the key regulations around emissions and what impact will they have on the economic competitiveness of -coal-fired power generation?
-How do renewable technologies compare against new clean coal technologies and how does carbon capture affect -their competitiveness?
Executive Summary
Introduction
The coal resource
Conventional coal-fired power generation technology
Advanced and zero emission coal burning technologies
Environmental and legislative issues
The economics of coal-fired power generation
The future of coal-fired power generation
Chapter 1 Introduction
Introduction
Coal use for power generation
Economics of coal
The environment
Emission control
The report
Chapter 2 The coal resource
Introduction
Coal types
Global coal reserves
Coal production
Coal consumption
Coal trade
Chapter 3 Conventional coal-fired power generation and emission control systems
Introduction
Conventional coal burning technology
Supercritical pulverized coal power plants
Plant efficiency
The future of supercritical PC plants
Fluidized bed boilers
Plant sizes
Biomass cofiring
Emission control
Sulfur dioxide
Nitrogen oxides
Dust
Mercury
Application of emission control systems
Chapter 4 Advanced and zero emission coal burning technologies
Introduction
Carbon dioxide capture and storage
Post combustion carbon capture
Pre-combustion capture
Integrated gasification combined cycle
Underground gasification
Oxyfuel combustion
Carbon transport and sequestration
Comparison of the different technologies
Capture ready power plants
Retrofitting to older plants
Chapter 5 Environmental and legislative
issues
Introduction
Carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide emission controls
Sulfur dioxide
Nitrogen oxides
Particulate emissions
Mercury
Economic effects of emission control
Chapter 6 The economics of coal-fired
power generation
Introduction
Capital costs
Alternative gasifiers
Different coals
Retrofitting
The cost of electricity
Performance of different gasifiers
Cost of electricity from different coals
PC vs IGCC
Chapter 7 The future of coal-fired power
generation
Introduction
The medium term
Predicted growth in the demand for coal-fired generating capacity
The introduction of new technology
The comparative economics of coal-fired power generation
List of Figures
Figure 1.1: Coal use for power generation, 2006
Figure 1.2: EIA projections for growth in coal-fired generating capacity in selected geographies, 2003-2030, (GW)
Figure 1.3: Predicted carbon dioxide emissions from coal combustion, 1990-2030 (million t CO2)
Figure 2.4: Proved recoverable coal reserves (million tonnes), 2006
Figure 2.5: Coal production, 2002 (thousand tonnes)
Figure 2.6: Top ten coal producers, 2005
Figure 2.7: Global coal consumption, 1965-2005 (million tonnes oil equivalent)
Figure 2.8: Top ten coal consumers, 2005
Figure 2.9: Thermal coal imports by country (million tonnes), 2005
Figure 4.10: Performance of coal-fired power plants with and without carbon capture
Figure 4.11: Plant efficiency with different coals (with carbon capture)
Figure 4.12: Effects of retrofitting a subcritical 500 MW coal-fired power plant
Figure 5.13: Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration (ppm), 1750-2005
Figure 6.14: Capital cost of coal-fired power plants with and without carbon capture ($/kW), Source NETL-Parsons
Figure 6.15: Capital cost of coal-fired power plants with and without carbon capture ($/kW), Source MIT
Figure 6.16: Capital costs for coal-fired power plants burning different coals ($/kW)
Figure 6.17: The cost of electricity from coal-fired power plants with and without carbon capture ($/kWh)
Figure 6.18: The cost of electricity from coal-fired power plants with and without carbon capture
Figure 6.19: Costs for different gasifier designs with and without carbon capture
Figure 7.20: EIA projections for growth in coal-fired generating capacity (GW), 2003-2030
Figure 7.21: Coal fired generating capacity growth in India and China (GW), 2004-2030
Figure 7.22: The cost of electricity from different technologies ($/MWh)
List of Tables
Table 1.1: Coal use for power generation, 2006
Table 1.2: EIA projections for growth in coal-fired generating capacity, 2003-2030, (GW)
Table 1.3: Predicted carbon dioxide emissions from coal combustion, 1990-2030 (million t CO2)
Table 2.4: Proved recoverable coal reserves (million tonnes), 2006
Table 2.5: Coal production, 2002 (thousand tonnes)
Table 2.6: Top ten coal producers, 2005
Table 2.7: Global coal consumption, 1965-2005 (million tonnes oil equivalent)
Table 2.8: Top ten coal consumers, 2005
Table 2.9: Thermal coal imports by country (million tonnes), 2005
Table 3.10: Typical steam conditions in pulverized coal power plants
Table 3.11: Typical carbon dioxide production per kWh as a function of efficiency in a coal-fired plant
Table 4.12: Performance of coal-fired power plants with and without carbon capture
Table 4.13: Plant efficiency with different coals (with carbon capture)
Table 4.14: Effects of retrofitting a subcritical 500 MW coal-fired power plant
Table 5.15: Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration (ppm), 1750-2005
Table 6.16: Capital cost of coal fired power plants with and without carbon capture (€/kW / $/kW), Source EU, UNIPCC
Table 6.17: Capital cost of coal-fired power plants with and without carbon capture ($/kW), Source NETL-Parsons
Table 6.18: Capital cost of coal-fired power plants with and without carbon capture ($/kW), Source MIT
Table 6.19: Capital costs for coal-fired power plants burning different coals ($/kW)
Table 6.20: The cost of electricity from coal-fired power plants with and without carbon capture ($/kWh)
Table 6.21: The cost of electricity from coal-fired power plants with and without carbon capture ($/kWh)
Table 6.22: The cost of electricity from coal-fired power plants with and without carbon capture
Table 6.23: Costs for different gasifier designs with and without carbon capture 106
Table 6.24: Costs for different coal combustion technologies burning different coals without carbon capture
Table 7.25: EIA projections for growth in coal-fired generating capacity (GW), 2003-2030
Table 7.26: Coal fired generating capacity growth in India and China (GW), 2004-2030
Table 7.27: The cost of electricity from different technologies ($/MWh)
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