In support of the G8

The IEA Clean Coal Centre was asked to help build global knowledge on coal use potential in the Plan of Action for Climate Change arising from the July 2005 G8 Meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland. In particular, the Communiqué invited the IEA ‘to carry out a global study of recently constructed plants building on the work of its Clean Coal Centre, to assess which are the most cost effective and have the highest efficiencies and the lowest emissions, and to disseminate this information widely.’

A series of case studies was conducted to show what is being achieved now in modern plants in different parts of the world. The work has now been published by the IEA in Paris under the title ‘Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Generation, Case Studies of Recently Constructed Coal- and Gas-Fired Power Plants’. The report is available through the IEA’s website www.iea.org. Colin Henderson is the author of this report.