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