The energy sector's position as the second-largest contributor to Indonesia's total emissions underscores a critical environmental challenge. This concern is further compounded by the substantial carbon footprint attributed to coal-based power plants. As a result, the energy sector has been...

As the power sector is the largest GHG emitter, it is important to investigate the fuels used in this sector. In 2023, coal was the primary source of electricity supply, accounting for 35.9%. Natural gas came in second, representing 23%. Asia has the largest number of coal plants in operation,...

Climate policies can have adverse social and economic effects on affected citizens. Against this backdrop, understanding the conditions under which electoral support or backlash to such policies occurs is crucial. In this paper, I set out to shed light on this issue by empirically analysing the...

Finding fuel sources to replace coal in power plants is crucial in the march toward decarbonization. Biomass and ammonia are two options offering significant potential. Both can be used with coal or alone in newly constructed facilities or in modified power plants. Relatively new power plants...

The transition toward carbon neutrality in China necessitates integrating more renewable energy sources (RES) into the power grid. However, a high share of RES can destabilize the grid, making it crucial to add clean, flexible power sources, such as battery energy storage systems (BESS) and...

The energy sector's position as the second-largest contributor to Indonesia's total emissions underscores a critical environmental challenge. This concern is further compounded by the substantial carbon footprint attributed to coal-based power plants. As a result, the energy sector has been...

The world's over 3,800 coal-fired power plants are sources of substantial emissions of toxic air pollutants. This study explores people's unequal exposure to air pollution from these coal plants. We simulate the wind dispersion of pollutants originating from each coal power plant using the...

Decarbonising the power sector requires feasible strategies for the rapid phase-out of fossil fuels and the expansion of low-carbon sources. This study assesses the feasibility of plausible decarbonisation scenarios for the power sector in the Republic of Korea through 2050 and 2060. Our power...

Although coal plants in some countries are actively being retired ahead of their planned closure dates, there is yet to be sufficient clarity on which business model(s) might help to achieve this at scale. Policy-based and market-led closures, buyout of coal plants, auctioning them off,...

The world's over 3,800 coal-fired power plants are sources of substantial emissions of toxic air pollutants. This study explores people's unequal exposure to air pollution from these coal plants. It simulates the wind dispersion of pollutants originating from each coal power plant using the...

As the share of intermittent renewable electricity generation increases, the remaining fleet of conventionalpower plants will have to operate with higher flexibility. One of the methods to increase power plantflexibility is to integrate a thermal energy storage (TES) into the water-steam cycle...

In this paper, we provide a theoretical characterization of the welfare effects of buyer and seller power in vertical relations and introduce an empirical approach for quantifying the contributions of each channel to deadweight loss. Our model accommodates both monopsony distortions from buyer...

Non-fossil energy increases the non-dispatchability of power system, requiring fossil-based technologies to provide back-up capacity as dispatchable source. In a coal-based economy like China, it is coal-fired units that act as back-up capacity. We show that increase of non-fossil energy...

While many studies have looked at innovation and adoption of technologies separately, the two processes are linked. Advances (and expected advances) in a single technology should affect both its adoption rate and the adoption of alternative technologies. Moreover, advances made abroad may affect...

We scrutinize the financial and environmental risk and its associated effect due to releasing carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon dioxide emission is one of the major greenhouse gases which mostly emit from coal-fired power plants. Various researchers suggested the non-linear optimization model...

We summarize the history of U.S. coal-fired plant retirements over the last decade, describe planned future retirements, and forecast the remaining operating life for every operating coal-fired generator. We summarize the technology and location trends that are correlated with the observed...

Coal-fired power plants are among the biggest air polluters both in China and globally. In 2013, China launched a pilot project to switch its power plants from coal to natural gas to curb coal-fired plants’ detrimental effects on air quality. Debates about this policy mainly invoke the costs,...

As the share of intermittent renewable electricity generation increases, the remaining fleet of conventionalpower plants will have to operate with higher flexibility. One of the methods to increase power plantflexibility is to integrate a thermal energy storage (TES) into the water-steam cycle...

To ensure climate stability, the decarbonization of the global economy is necessary. Coal-fired power generation is both the most carbon-intensive form of electricity supply and associated with adverse health effects. Thus, retiring coal-fired power plants is essential for achieving the goals of...

As both China and India are moving away from coal in the power sector, Southeast Asia has emerged as arguably the most important region for future growth in coal-fired power generation. Here we use data from the January 2017 edition of the Global Coal Plant Tracker to understand coal's fortunes...

An influential literature posits that introducing market mechanisms to price-regulated industries generates substantial long-run efficiency benefits by removing the incentive to over-invest in capital. The coal storage behavior of U.S. power plants is an ideal setting to empirically assess this...

This work investigates the performance of a conventional steam power plant retrofitted with a solar-assisted regenerative system using Parabolic Trough Solar Collectors (PTC). The solar collectors were used to compensate for the effect of removing Low-Pressure (LP) turbine extractions without...