European Clean Coal
SteelGuru as media partner is proud to present European Clean Coal which is organized by Platts at Westin Grand Berlin, Germany.
Coal is one of the cheapest fuel options for power generation today and holds the largest market share of the world's electricity generation, roughly about 40%. The cost advantage of coal with CO2 sequestration against natural gas is increasingly highlighting this fossil fuel as a key means of securing Europe's energy supply. A number of European Utilities have plans for building clean coal technology power plants, but is the industry moving quick enough to take full advantage of investments in this low emissions source of energy?
All major global projections suggest that fossil fuels will remain a key for power generation and that global coal demand is expected to double by 2030. The greatest challenge to coal's future expanded use is the ability to achieve with the world's environmental requirements. Concern over the potential effect of CO2 emissions from coal fired power plants on global climate is a key issue for the future of power generation worldwide.
Platts "European Clean Coal: Optimizing the Generation Mix" conference will highlight how the right mix of research, investment, and market incentives will stake a place for clean coal in a sustainable and secure energy future and how to optimize your portfolio in this rapidly evolving market place. How can we make the best mix of technology, policy and market incentives to allow for a smooth and secure clean coal take-off?
Key Topics under discussion in the Conference
- Ensuring coal stays in the generation mix - Balancing security of supply, diversity, and the environment
- Should there be financial incentives for new Clean Coal projects?
- The Emissions Trading Scheme - Is there need for guarantees and extra legislation?
- Integrating clean coal technologies with carbon capture and storage processes
- At what point will re-investment in retrofitting be needed to meet EU licensing policy and LCPDs?
- Developments in clean coal technologies - Fluidized bed combustion, supercritical and ultra critical combustion, and integrated gasification combined cycle
- Facing the challenges of bringing CCT's to market
- New build plans in clean coal technology power plants
Program
Day One : Monday September 24, 2007
08:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
09:15 Chairman's Welcoming Remarks
Dr. John Topper, Managing Director, IEA Clean Coal Centre
Clean Coal: Opportunities and Challenges
09:30 Ever Cleaner Coal and Efforts to Introduce Carbon Capture and Storage
- State of the art and its importance as a platform for introducing CCS
- CCS technologies and hurdles for first generation plants
- Regulatory and financial needs to create an enabling environment
10:00 Making Sustainable Fossil Fuels in Europe a Reality by 2020
- What does "Sustainable Fossil Fuels" mean for coal power plants?
- "Capture-readiness" and "retrofitting": what EU policies should be in place by 2010 and post 2020?
- What support could be provided in the EU and beyond its borders?
10:30 Clean Coal and the Sustainable Energy Challenge
- The 2007 Inter Academy Council study: development goals, energy demand and efficiency
- Energy supply: coal-based technologies for a carbon constrained world
- Accelerating the rate of decline in the carbon intensity of the global economy
Prof. Robert H. Socolow, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University
11:00 Panel Discussion: How Will Regulatory Developments Affect the Industry Going Forward?
- How will regional and national-level regulation converge?
- CO2 - is this really the most important coal issue?
- How can member states comply and encourage investment?
Mr Alan Svoboda, Executive Director, Sales and Trading, CEZ
Prof. Stefano Consonni, Department of Energy Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Dr. John Topper, Managing Director, IEA Clean Coal Centre
Mr Jan Panek, Head of Unit "Coal and Oil, Market Observatory", European Commission
Chaired by Mr Richard Budge, Chief Executive Officer, Powerfuel PLC
11:30 Networking and Refreshment Break
National-Level Case Studies
12:00 Centrica: Coal IGCC Plant with Carbon Capture at Teesside, UK
- Centrica's portfolio mix
- UK Energy market background - why coal IGCC with CCS?
- Project status and view of what will be required to reach a successful conclusion
12:30 CCT Developments and Impact on Coal's Future in Italy
- Italy facing Kyoto challenges
- Perspectives for almost zero emission
- CCT and coal public acceptance
13:00 Networking Lunch
Dr. John Topper, Managing Director, IEA Clean Coal Centre
Mr Giorgio Ruscito, Vice President, Assocarboni
Mr Nigel Downes, Business Development Manager, Centrica
National and Regional Project Possibilities
14:30 New Build Plans: Hatfield 900 MW IGCC with Carbon Capture and Storage
- Financing
- Technology
- Sequestration
15:00 How to Tackle the Challenges Facing the Polish Energy Sector Based on Domestic Solid Fuels?
- The main challenges: LCP and NEC Directives, Climate Change and Air Quality Directives with their tough targets from Accession treaty, NAPII, and CAFE program
- Polish rocketing energy demand
- How to devise a sustainable low carbon economy using the EUETS and Kyoto flexibility mechanisms?
15:30 Norwegian Feasibility Study: Large Scale Post Combustion Capture
- Completed on a 420MW power plant
- Optimizing retrofit capture
- Risk management
- Project scaling
Mr John Hanson, Managing Director, HTC Pure energy
Day Two: Tuesday September 25, 2007
08:30 Continental Breakfast
09:15 Chairman's Welcome and Review of Day One
Dr. John Topper, Managing Director, IEA Clean Coal Centre
Facing the Challenges of Bringing CCT's to Market
09:30 CO2 Capture-Ready Clean Coal Power Plant for Global Needs
- Global market needs (new build and existing plant)
- EU policies on coal, CCS
- Capture ready advanced supercritical power plant
- Capture technologies and their validation
- Timescales and resources
10:00 Perspectives of CCS Technology in Greece
- Energy balance up to 2020
- CO2 emissions up to 2020
- Coal Units in Greece: Carbon Capture ready?
- CCS contribution to CO2 reduction
10:30 Networking and Refreshment Break
Financing Clean Coal
11:00 Investment Trends in Clean Coa
- Which technologies are attracting the most investment?
- How is corporate activity driving the investment?
- Which investors are most active in the space?
11:30 Panel Discussion: A Stable Future for Clean Coal Investments?
- The role of clean coal in the transition to a global low-carbon energy sector
- Energy geopolitics and clean coal investments
- Which international and national policies are needed for clean coal investments?
- Do we need financial incentives for new clean coal projects?
- How can clean coal be encouraged without longterm global CO2 price guarantees?
- Will Eastern Europe be left behind?
Mr Giorgio Ruscito, Vice President, Assocarboni
Mr Louis Jestin, Technical Director, EDF Polska
Mr Chris Greenwood, Head of Research, New Energy Finance
Chaired by Dr. Stephan Slingerland, Senior Researcher, Clingendael International Energy Programme
12:30 Close of Conference
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