This was the first international Partner Conference hosted by the Repower Initiative. We shared progress amongst our partners and even had the pleasure to visit a coal power plant to get insights on the upcoming challenges.
This paper builds a two‑level planning + operation model to choose among three retrofit paths for coal plants—flexibility upgrades, CCUS, and Carnot battery reconstruction—while enforcing unit‑commitment, reserve, and frequency‑security constraints under high VRE.
The Komati project was initially focused largely within the boundary of the power station. If the vision for the Just Transition is to be realised in South Africa, projects must be designed with a broader scope to enable the deep, just, and transformational shifts necessary.
Retrofitting a Chilean coal-fired power plant with an innovative solid media storage from a techno-economic perspective.
AuthorsY. Zhang; J. Wang; X. Liu; H. Zhao This paper investigates the thermodynamic performance of a compressed air energy storage (CAES) system integrated with a coal-fired power plant. The proposed configuration stores excess electricity by compressing air and later releases the stored energy to support electricity generation through the plant’s steam cycle. The study develops…
A concise overview of coal repowering with nuclear energy, highlighting its potential to address climate goals and revitalize coal communities. It outlines the opportunities, such as clean energy transition, improved public health, infrastructure reuse, economic revitalization, and job creation, as well as the challenges associated with these transitions.
Governments, utilities, and industries are looking to transition away from coal-based, electrical, and thermal generation to help meet carbon reduction and other emissions-related goals. Continued operation of coal assets may result in reduced economic and regulatory certainty. Many organizations are reviewing nuclear energy as an option due to its ability to provide carbon-free, dispatchable, and…
This report discusses key issues to consider and understand when evaluating whether closing coal-fired plants can effectively be repurposed for nuclear power generation.
The need to decarbonize the energy sector will leave infrastructure and workers of retired coal-fired power plants behind, designing these plants in a way that they can be swiftly transformed to provide low-carbon energy could make them nuclear-ready.
The "Feasibility Assessment and Economic Evaluation: Repurposing a Coal Power Plant Site to Deploy an Advanced Small Modular Reactor Power Plant" report by X Energy, LLC offers an in-depth study of deploying the advanced Xe-100 SMR technology at an existing coal plant site in Maryland.
On Friday, April 7, Professor Lukasz Bartela and Dr. Eng. Pawel Gladysz had the opportunity to represent the DEsire project at a meeting with representatives of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power.
The United States and Multinational Public-Private Partners Look to Provide Up To $275 Million to Advance the Romania Small Modular Reactor Project; United States Issues Letters of Interest for Up To $4 Billion in Project Financing
