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Emissions Savings from Switching Coal with Gas
The Great Switch: Emissions Savings from Replacing Coal With Gas Up to 67 gigawatts of coal-fired power plants could go offline by the end of the decade because of strict pollution regulations. 13 If natural gas-fired combined cycle plants replace coal, carbon dioxide 2,249 emissions could fall by 150 million tons per year. Below is a comparison of average emissions from natural gas and coal plants. Ibs/MWh carbon dioxide Ibs/MWh sulfur dioxide Ibs/MWh nitrogen oxides Ibs/MWh 0.1 sulfur dioxide Ibs/MWh 1.135 carbon dioxide Ibs/MWh 1.7 nitrogen oxides COAL NATURAL GAS BY 2020 150 TX CH million tons of CO2 Sources: The Brattle Group, U.S. EPA
Emissions Savings from Switching Coal with Gas
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The Great Switch: Emissions Savings from Replacing Coal with Gas
- Up to 67 gigawatts of coal-fired power plants could go offline by the end of the deacde because of strict pollution regulations. I...
f natural gas-fired combined cycle plants replace coal, carbon dioxide emissions could fall by million tons per year. Here is an infographic showing the comparison of average emissions from natural gas and coal plants.
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