Comments on: Let’s come clean on “dirty” coal http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2012/08/lets-come-clean-on-dirty-coal/ Taking the heat out of global warming Sun, 19 May 2013 20:33:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Richard C (NZ) http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/2012/08/lets-come-clean-on-dirty-coal/comment-page-1/#comment-114787 Richard C (NZ) Sat, 01 Sep 2012 01:51:07 +0000 http://www.climateconversation.wordshine.co.nz/?p=14257#comment-114787 Formerly eco-evangelist Germany is gung-ho on new coal power plants to replace older, dirtier plants. They've just opened a new 2200MW coal-fired power station near Cologne and their new environment minister, Peter Altmaier, has given the green light to build twenty-three new coal-fired plants, which are currently under construction. Annual funding for the new plants could total more than €160 million per year between 2013 and 2014 alone, the Berliner Zeitung newspaper reported. That funding is sourced from a fund for promoting clean energy and combating climate change. Investment in Coal-Fired Power Generation http://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/investment/session3/Drake.pdf RWE Rheinbraun Power Plant Renewal Program (page 9) Successive renewal of the 10,000 MW power plant portfolio (page 10) Target: efficiency > 50 % by 2015/20 Emission reduction through retrofit of the Rhenish lignite mining area's 10,000 MW power plant portfolio (1983 - 92) (page 6) Nitrogen oxide - 72 % Sulphur dioxide - 93 % Particulate matter - 93 % CO2 reduction through replacement of all power plants that are older than 20 years by state-of-the-art plants: CO2 emissions of European power plants in bn t/a: (page 7) - 0.3 bn t/a (1.3 down to 1.0 bn t/a) Also:- The Market for Coal Power Plants in Europe Market volumes – projects – strategies – trends Cologne, March 2012 Extract http://www.ecoprog.com/fileadmin/user_upload/leseproben/extract_coal_power_plants_2012-2013_ecoprog.pdf "....constructing coal power plants is booming" A presentation of about 330 coal power plants with a total capacity of about 205 GW, on paper for 2,900,- euros plus VAT as a PDF file for 5,800,- euros plus VAT Formerly eco-evangelist Germany is gung-ho on new coal power plants to replace older, dirtier plants. They’ve just opened a new 2200MW coal-fired power station near Cologne and their new environment minister, Peter Altmaier, has given the green light to build twenty-three new coal-fired plants, which are currently under construction.

Annual funding for the new plants could total more than €160 million per year between 2013 and 2014 alone, the Berliner Zeitung newspaper reported. That funding is sourced from a fund for promoting clean energy and combating climate change.

Investment in Coal-Fired Power Generation

http://www.oecd-nea.org/ndd/investment/session3/Drake.pdf

RWE Rheinbraun Power Plant Renewal Program (page 9)

Successive renewal of the 10,000 MW power plant portfolio (page 10)

Target: efficiency > 50 % by 2015/20

Emission reduction through retrofit of the Rhenish lignite
mining area’s 10,000 MW power plant portfolio (1983 – 92) (page 6)

Nitrogen oxide – 72 %

Sulphur dioxide – 93 %

Particulate matter – 93 %

CO2 reduction through replacement of all power plants that are older than 20 years
by state-of-the-art plants: CO2 emissions of European power plants in bn t/a: (page 7)

- 0.3 bn t/a (1.3 down to 1.0 bn t/a)

Also:-

The Market for Coal Power Plants in Europe
Market volumes – projects – strategies – trends
Cologne, March 2012

Extract

http://www.ecoprog.com/fileadmin/user_upload/leseproben/extract_coal_power_plants_2012-2013_ecoprog.pdf

“….constructing coal power plants is booming”

A presentation of about 330 coal power plants with a total capacity of about 205 GW,

on paper for 2,900,- euros plus VAT
as a PDF file for 5,800,- euros plus VAT

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