Future Scenarios for Western US Power Grid (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Future Scenarios for Western US Power Grid

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This is a chart showing how different mixes of fuels can affect the carbon emissions in 2050 from the electrical grid in the western US. Biomass carbon capture and sequestration and biomass co-firing CCS on coal CCS plants provide negative carbon dioxide emissions. As emissions limits are reduced, fossil-fuel CO2 emissions shift from coal and combined-cycle gas turbine technology to CCGT with CCS.

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Daniel Kammen and Daniel Sanchez, UC Berkeley

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