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The only integration points of the old coal plants are the transmission lines, location footprint, access to power generation employees. Steam and temperature a
by TrispusAttucks 5y ago
The only integration points of the old coal plants are the transmission lines, location footprint, access to power generation employees. Steam and temperature aren't in play.
- ars 5y agoWould you not reuse the generator itself? What about the turbine that drives it?
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoYou would. You might need to screw around with a few of the compressor stages to get peak efficiency on the cooler steam source but that's by no means rocket science.
- Gravityloss 5y agoThat's a more realistic approach. That would mean investing in new coal plant steam turbines now would be a dead end. They are very expensive things.
- VintageCool 5y agoIt seems to be much more common to re-use old coal plant locations as grid-scale energy storage sites.