The CCS paradox: The much higher CO2 avoidance costs of existing versus new fossil fuel power plants

Energy Procedia

Volumn 4, Issue , 2011, Pages 1917-1924

  Simbeck, Dale ^a   Beecy, David ^b  

^a SFA Pacific Inc   (United States)

^b BC Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Ccs; Retrofit

Indexed keywords

CARBON CAPTURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COAL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ENERGY SECURITY; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; OPERATING COSTS; RETROFITTING; TAXATION;

BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE; COAL BASED POWER PLANTS; COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT; EMISSIONS REDUCTION; FOSSIL-FUEL PLANTS; MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY; MITIGATION OPTIONS; RETROFIT;

FOSSIL FUEL POWER PLANTS;

EID: 79955381022     PISSN: 18766102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.egypro.2011.02.071     Document Type: Conference Paper

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