文档介绍：POWER GENERATION: ENGINEERING CHALLENGES OF A LOW CARBON FUTURE
A Morris
Technical Head Integrity
ENGINEERING UK
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SUMMARY
Climate change issues bined with the other aspects of Government Energy Policy across the world to create some significant challenges for the Power industry. For example, in the UK these challenges include, achieving a 60% reduction in CO2 by 2050, whilst ensuring security of energy supplies, which are affordable, all within petitive market framework. This means that the Power Industry has to work hard to find new ways of delivering energy to a wide range of Industrial and Retail customers. In addition, there are significant challenges associated with developing new technologies that are delivered on time and are technically effective, thereby mitigating the risk associated due to the retirement of current plant and the need to reduce emissions. These challenges have prompted an upsurge in R&D activities and this paper will touch on some of the more tangible projects and issues.
It’s beneficial to set the scene and the UK experience provides a good platform to explore. Following the privatisation of the electricity industry in the UK there was a focus on operating existing generating plant as effectively as possible within a new and developing market framework. The survivors in this market have emerged as verticall