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Is it possible to ban the export of coal power? If your country needs it then go forth. You just can't resell that power stations output internationally.

hamandcheese 9y ago
Who would enforce such a ban? The best you could realistically do is ban the import in your country. Is there even much international electricity trade occurring?
- mjlee 9y ago
  There is in the EU: https://ec.europa.eu/energy/en/topics/infrastructure/projects-common-interest/electricity-interconnection-targets https://ec.europa.eu/energy/en/topics/infrastructure/project... `In October 2014, the European Council called for all EU countries to achieve interconnection of at least 10% of their installed electricity production capacity by 2020. This means that each country should have in place electricity cables that allow at least 10% of the electricity produced by its power plants to be transported across its borders to neighbouring countries. 17 countries are already on track to reach that target by 2020, or have already reached the target, but more interconnections are needed in some regions.`
eloff 9y ago
Because the polluted air stays in your country? Anyway afaik electricity export is not a huge businesses internationally compared to domestic consumption.
lmm 9y ago
Electricity is fungible, so such a ban would make no difference in practice. China has enough non-coal plants that they could just say all the power they were exporting came from them.
- Already__Taken 9y ago
  It would effectively take the form that if a country or maybe provider is generating coal power, they are unable to export any power. I'm not arguing this would fix everything, just adding direct negative to using coal. If you need coal to make your own country function, fine go ahead that's still a problem that exists.

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Is it possible to ban the export of coal power? If your country needs it then go forth. You just can't resell that power stations output internationally.

by Already__Taken 9y ago

hamandcheese 9y ago
Who would enforce such a ban? The best you could realistically do is ban the import in your country. Is there even much international electricity trade occurring?
- mjlee 9y ago
  There is in the EU: https://ec.europa.eu/energy/en/topics/infrastructure/projects-common-interest/electricity-interconnection-targets https://ec.europa.eu/energy/en/topics/infrastructure/project... `In October 2014, the European Council called for all EU countries to achieve interconnection of at least 10% of their installed electricity production capacity by 2020. This means that each country should have in place electricity cables that allow at least 10% of the electricity produced by its power plants to be transported across its borders to neighbouring countries. 17 countries are already on track to reach that target by 2020, or have already reached the target, but more interconnections are needed in some regions.`
eloff 9y ago
Because the polluted air stays in your country? Anyway afaik electricity export is not a huge businesses internationally compared to domestic consumption.
lmm 9y ago
Electricity is fungible, so such a ban would make no difference in practice. China has enough non-coal plants that they could just say all the power they were exporting came from them.
- Already__Taken 9y ago
  It would effectively take the form that if a country or maybe provider is generating coal power, they are unable to export any power. I'm not arguing this would fix everything, just adding direct negative to using coal. If you need coal to make your own country function, fine go ahead that's still a problem that exists.