The wave of innovation in SMRs has the potential to reshape the way society and industry produces and uses energy. The next five to ten years is going to be pivotal in terms of getting these new technologies to market.
IAEA’s webinar outlines technical pathways and economics for coal‑to‑nuclear repurposing, framing nuclear as a dispatchable, low‑carbon backbone that can reuse coal sites and assets to accelerate decarbonization.
This article presents the results of a techno-economic analysis of repowering a coal-fired power plant’s steam turbine system to instead accept heat produced by a pressurized water reactor-type small modular nuclear system
The report discusses whether advanced nuclear energy can help repower the Coal Country, i.e., the United States.
This Summary for Policymakers (SPM) presents the key findings of the Special Report, based on the assessment of the available scientific, technical and socio-economic literature relevant to global warming of 1.5°C and for the comparison between global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
This Synthesis Report (SYR) of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) summarises the state of knowledge of climate change, its wide spread impacts and risks, and climate change mitigation and adaptation, based on the peer-reviewed scientific, technical and socio-economic literature since the publication of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) in2014.
This report from KAIST reviews the landscape of coal power in the Philippines and proposes a repowering strategy using Korean SMR technology. The study identifies 41 candidate coal-fired units suitable for retrofitting based on age, size, and location criteria.
Global energy-related CO2 emissions grew by 1.1% in 2023, increasing 410 million tonnes (Mt) to reach a new record high of 37.4 billion tonnes(Gt). A new record high, but is there light at the end of the tunnel?
This paper examines a retrofit strategy that converts coal-fired power plants into grid-scale energy storage facilities by integrating molten salt thermal energy storage (TES). Instead of burning coal, the boiler is replaced with an electrically heated molten salt storage system that stores excess electricity from the grid and later generates steam to drive the existing…
Staffan Qvist took the stage at The Drop conference in Malmö to talk about Repowering Coal. Repowering coal plants could avoid the release of 200 billion tons of CO₂ emissions by 2070.
The study assesses the potential to convert retired coal plants into nuclear energy sites in the U.S., finding that 80% of evaluated sites are suitable. A case study shows this transition could cut costs by 15-35% and boost local economies by adding jobs and increasing regional economic activity.
This paper presents the results of a techno-economic analysis of three repowering cases of a 460 MW supercritical coal-fired unit in Poland.