Relevance of Clean Coal Technology for India's Energy Security: A Policy Perspective

Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Underground Coal Gasification in India 2017

Garg, Amit^1 ; Tiwari, Vineet^2 ; Vishwanathan, Saritha^1

Public Systems Group, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Vastrapur, Ahmedabad, India^1

Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Information Technology - Allahabad, Allahabad, India^2

关键词: Clean coal technologies;    Climate change mitigation;    Combustion technology;    Ghg emission mitigations;    Indian power sectors;    Large-scale deployment;    Reducing co2 emissions;    Thermal power generation;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/76/1/012001/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/76/1/012001

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Climate change mitigation regimes are expected to impose constraints on the future use of fossil fuels in order to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In 2015, 41% of total final energy consumption and 64% of power generation in India came from coal. Although almost a sixth of the total coal based thermal power generation is now super critical pulverized coal technology, the average CO2emissions from the Indian power sector are 0.82 kg-CO2/kWh, mainly driven by coal. India has large domestic coal reserves which give it adequate energy security. There is a need to find options that allow the continued use of coal while considering the need for GHG mitigation. This paper explores options of linking GHG emission mitigation and energy security from 2000 to 2050 using the AIM/Enduse model under Business-as-Usual scenario. Our simulation analysis suggests that advanced clean coal technologies options could provide promising solutions for reducing CO2emissions by improving energy efficiencies. This paper concludes that integrating climate change security and energy security for India is possible with a large scale deployment of advanced coal combustion technologies in Indian energy systems along with other measures.