Repower

Accelerating the Clean Repowering of Coal Power

[Repower @RepowerWorld]

The Repower Initiative team is headed to London for London Climate Action Week. Where @Staffan will present our Whitepaper “Financing the Clean Repowering of Coal Power”. Reach out to @QvistStaffan and @llipayalb if you want to get involved.

[Repower @RepowerWorld]

News Alert! The Repower Initiative releases "Financing the Clean Repowering of Coal Power," a whitepaper that introduces the Repowering concept to the finance community.

Read more: https://t.co/jqOgvq755r

[Repower @RepowerWorld]

ITB partnered with us to explore the feasibility of repowering Indonesian coal-fired power plants! With Indonesia’s economic development leading to a 5xincrease in energy demand by 2060, the urgency to shift towards low-carbon sources is crucial. https://t.co/Z4JA2y06uS

[Repower @RepowerWorld]

KAIST joins us to explore reusing coal power plants in South Korea. Coal power plants contribute to the largest portion of greenhouse gas emissions globally. Together we hope to advance the transition to net-zero emission future. https://t.co/lTupfLTw82

[Repower @RepowerWorld]

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[Repower @RepowerWorld]

Exciting news from G7 Summit! The Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment is supporting Romania's Small Modular Reactor project. The aim is to replace a coal plant with clean power by 2029. A significant step towards global decarbonization. Link in thread 👇

[Repower @RepowerWorld]

Last September @QvistStaffan took the stage at The Drop conference in Malmö to talk about Repowering Coal.

Repowering coal plants could avoid the release of 200 billion tons of CO2 emissions by 2070.

Watch the keynote 👉 https://t.co/4cC0s4XcZg.

[Repower @RepowerWorld]

@e_Sundell

[Repower @RepowerWorld]

Coal 🏭 > Nuclear ⚛️

Join us tomorrow for @iaeaorg's webinar on the economic aspects of repurposing coal-fired power plants with nuclear power plants.

Our partners Mr Yaoli Zhang and Mr Lukasz Bartela will be the featured panelists.

Register here: https://t.co/bPjCP2xqh7

[Repower @RepowerWorld]

Find the presentation and recording here 👇

https://t.co/SNiMJpKUjL

[Repower @RepowerWorld]

Exciting meeting with @KHNP_Official, @PusanUni, @SejongUniKR and @kaistpr to discuss the Coal-to-Nuclear pathway for decarbonization. Our partners Lukasz Bartela and @PawelGladysz presented the DESIRE project results. @QvistStaffan joined to update progress on @RepowerCoal.

[Anthropocene Institute @anthrop_inst]

#NuclearEnergy #NewClearAir #ClimateChange

[Staffan Qvist @QvistStaffan]

[14/x] “Decarbonisation is about two things: Building stuff and closing stuff” (Quote Prof. @emilygrubert). Coal power retrofit is an idea that could do both in one fell swoop! It CAN also make the firm power component of a decarbonized power system cheaper and quicker to build.

[Staffan Qvist @QvistStaffan]

[1/x] Happy to announce the publication of “RETROFIT DECARBONIZATION of COAL POWER” (open access https://t.co/JxrMtLS9gf, @energies_mdpi). A riveting 39-page article (+ 44p S.I.), obviously makes for excellent holiday/wknd reading :) Here's an attempt at a tweet-summary-thread!

[Staffan Qvist @QvistStaffan]

"Repowering Coal Power in China by Nuclear Energy—Implementation Strategy and Potential", a new open access paper, is now available here: https://t.co/FMRy9VvWGL, quick summary introduction to this work below! [THREAD!]

[Simon Wakter @simonwakter]

"I campaigned against nuclear energy in the 2000s. Now I’ve changed my mind"

By @bryworthington in @prospect_uk
https://t.co/ncc7NUJND6