The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) hosted a webinar on the potential of transforming former coal plant sites into clean energy hubs powered by nuclear technology.
Repower Initiative’s founder Dr. Staffan Qvist attended as a panellist.
A video recording of his presentation is available for you to watch online.
Repower is a global non-profit initiative focused on any type of transition for coal (and other fossil fuel) assets to clean energy centres.
Nearly 10,000 coal units have been built. These pollute the atmosphere with particulates and CO₂. These can be seen as ‘problematic’.
These can also be reframed as an enormous opportunity.
🏭 ~700GW of coal power plant capacity is less than 10 years old
💲 The equipment has great residual value
The most valuable aspect of coal repowering in often the social aspects of retaining local economic activity, and the value of the grid connection itself. Right now, there’s drastic grid interconnection queues. It takes a very long time to connect either production or consumption.
Coal power plant sites have the least popular portion of infrastructure in the world, overhead power lines coming into those stations. The longest lead item for decarbonisation, the transmission substations, are already on site.
Repower are scoring every single coal power plant unit in the world for their suitability to transition to various clean energy technologies.
🔢 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞:
https://repowerscore.org/
RepowerScore is freely available anywhere. Choose the pathway you’re interested in to find coal plants that are worthy of studying deeper, where the conditions for a clean replacement technology are right.
Repower are finalising the plan for the next two years where we will be expanding our program to do more than we’ve ever done before.
🤝 Reach out to us if you want to work on national and regional strategies, or individual coal power plant transition strategies, and optimising for that.
We’re also doing global studies and case studies for individual plants.
If you’re interested in working with us as a utility that owns a coal power plant or a research institution, get in touch.
Let’s see what we can do together…
𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐈𝐀𝐄𝐀 𝐰𝐞𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞:
Powering the Future: The Macroeconomic and Socioeconomic Benefits of Coal-to-Nuclear Transitions
𝐈𝐀𝐄𝐀 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭: ‘Coal to Nuclear: Supporting a Clean Energy Transition’, developed for South Africa’s 2025 G20 Presidency
Viet Phuong Nguyen, Maria Papadopoulou – thanks to IAEA for hosting us at your excellent and informative event!