What is it about?
Coal-based carbon capture and storage (CCS), in addition to renewable energies, is increasingly being explored as a potential technology for decarbonizing India's power sector. This paper explores the prospects and challenges for coal-CCS in India's future low carbon electricity transition scenarios, and quantifies its relative benefits and trade-offs in comparison to successful renewable energies from multiple sustainability perspectives.
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Why is it important?
Our findings show that coal-CCS not only suffers from typical new technology development related challenges—such as a lack of technical potential assessments and necessary support infrastructure, and high costs—but also from severe resource constraints (especially water) in an era of global warming and the competition from outperforming renewable power sources. Thus, our study adds a considerable level of techno-economic and environmental nexus specificity to the current debate about coal-based large-scale CCS and the low carbon energy transition in emerging and developing economies in the Global South, taking India as a case study.
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I hope this article motivates and assists India’s decision makers to promote low carbon energy technologies as a basis for India’s future energy system with a comprehensive understanding of their pros and cons from multiple sustainability perspectives, alongside informing the international CCS and coal industry on the key challenges and benefits of coal-based carbon capture and storage in India in future.
Mitavachan Hiremath
Center for Sustainability, Policy & Technology Management (SusPoT)
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This page is a summary of: An Integrated Comparative Assessment of Coal-Based Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Vis-à-Vis Renewable Energies in India’s Low Carbon Electricity Transition Scenarios, Energies, January 2021, MDPI AG,
DOI: 10.3390/en14020262.
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