China Allows New Coal Plants, but With More Limited Role
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-new-coal-plants-2027
by YaleE360
China Allows New Coal Plants, but With More Limited Role
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/china-new-coal-plants-2027
by YaleE360
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>The plan clears the way to build new plants where needed to shore up the supply of power or to balance solar and wind, Bloomberg reports. To that end, new coal plants must be able to ramp up and ramp down quickly. The plan also directs new plants to burn coal more efficiently than the existing fleet, and it will require some new power stations to run less than 20 percent of the time.
Sounds like a job made for OCGT plants or batteries, not coal
Anyone have any experience with running Coal plants in such a flexible manner? The economics must be terrible for a coal ‘peaker’ plant.
Running less than 20 percent of the time seems crazy considering the warmup times. Maybe these are aimed at seasonal gaps and not daily.
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