Reducing transition costs towards carbon neutrality of China’s coal power plants

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 241 - 11
• Main Authors: Wang, Rui, Cai, Wenjia, Cui, Ryna Yiyun, Huang, Lin, Ma, Weidong, Qi, Binbin, Zhang, Jia, Bian, Jiang, Li, Haoran, Zhang, Shihui, Shen, Jianxiang, Zhang, Xian, Zhang, Jiutian, Li, Wei, Yu, Le, Zhang, Ning, Wang, Can
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 02.01.2025; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 704/106/694/682; 704/844/2175; 704/844/682; Carbon; Carbon neutrality; Carbon sequestration; Coal; Coal-fired power plants; Cost assessments; Costs; Decarbonization; Decision making; Emissions; Emissions control; Humanities and Social Sciences; Industrial plant emissions; multidisciplinary; Optimization models; Plant shutdowns; Power plants; Retrofitting; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Transition costs; China

The same cumulative carbon emission reduction target can correspond to multiple emission reduction pathways. This study explores how different coal power transition pathways with the same cumulative emissions reductions impact the transition costs, by assessing the dynamic transition processes for c...