Ripe for Retirement: An Economic Analysis of the U.S. Coal Fleet

Fleischman, Lesley; Cleetus, Rachel; Deyette, Jeff; Clemmer, Steve; Frenkel, Stephen J.

doi:10.1016/j.tej.2013.11.005

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“…Both policy and market forces are influencing U.S. coal plant retirement rates. In the U.S. West, coal-fired power plants are closing due to competition from natural gas and renewable energy sources, stagnant overall electricity demand, and environmental regulations (Fleischman et al, 2013;Hourser et al, 2017). New air quality regulations were enacted in 2011 that limit mercury and other air toxics emissions from coal-fired power generators (the MATS Rule) (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2016).…”

Section: Context: Coal Plant Retirements In the Us Westmentioning

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Planning for the local impacts of coal facility closure: Emerging strategies in the U.S. West

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Roemer

et al. 2018

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This study considers the contours of the coal transition in the United States from the perspective of local planning responses to coal plant retirements in the U.S. West. Plant closures in the region affect a diverse set of geographies and have developed in a complex, uncoordinated policy environment. The study applies an assessment framework informed by economic geography and community planning scholarship to a dataset of 12 planning documents written by and for local communities experiencing coal facility closures. The findings highlight the absence of effective strategies to address lost local revenues, lack of connections between environmental quality and long-term economic resilience, and a range of levels of acceptance of the coal transition. Together, the plans demonstrate the negative consequences of an uncoordinated, contradictory policy environment for transition planning at the local level and the need for policy interventions to address issues of equity and efficiency in this process.

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Section: Context: Coal Plant Retirements In the Us Westmentioning

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Planning for the local impacts of coal facility closure: Emerging strategies in the U.S. West

Haggerty

Haggerty²,

Roemer

et al. 2018

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“…As concerns about the impacts of climate change grow, carbon intensive fuels such as coal will face additional costs to comply with future policies to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Taken together, these factors are putting many coal-fired power plants at an economic disadvantage (Fleischman et al 2013, Cleetus et al 2012, Freese et al 2011.…”

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Economic impacts on West Virginia from projected future coal production and implications for policymakers

Richardson

Cleetus

Clemmer

et al. 2014

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…Power grids require flexibility to meet new operational challenges related to grid expansion [1], increasing penetration of renewables [2], [3] and generation retirement [4]. In addition to traditional ways to balance AC-flows through generation dispatch, a number of new technological solutions are now available for controls.…”

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Scalable Heuristics for Planning, Placement and Sizing of Flexible AC Transmission System Devices

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Backhaus

Chertkov

2015

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Aiming to relieve transmission grid congestion and improve or extend feasibility domain of the operations, we build optimization heuristics, generalizing standard AC Optimal Power Flow (OPF), for placement and sizing of Flexible Alternating Current Transmission System (FACTS) devices of the Series Compensation (SC) and Static VAR Compensation (SVC) type. One use of these devices is in resolving the case when the AC OPF solution does not exist because of congestion. Another application is developing a long-term investment strategy for placement and sizing of the SC and SVC devices to reduce operational cost and improve power system operation. SC and SVC devices are represented by modification of the transmission line inductances and reactive power nodal corrections respectively. We find one placement and sizing of FACTs devices for multiple scenarios and optimal settings for each scenario simultaneously. Our solution of the nonlinear and nonconvex generalized AC-OPF consists of building a convergent sequence of convex optimizations containing only linear constraints and shows good computational scaling to larger systems. The approach is illustrated on singleand multi-scenario examples of the Matpower case-30 model.

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Ripe for Retirement: An Economic Analysis of the U.S. Coal Fleet

Cited by 33 publications

References 3 publications

Planning for the local impacts of coal facility closure: Emerging strategies in the U.S. West

Planning for the local impacts of coal facility closure: Emerging strategies in the U.S. West

Economic impacts on West Virginia from projected future coal production and implications for policymakers

Scalable Heuristics for Planning, Placement and Sizing of Flexible AC Transmission System Devices

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