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.
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.
