monali zeya hazra - centre of excellence for power plant efficiency an indian case study

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Centre of Excellence for Power Plant

Efficiency: An Indian Case Study

Asia Clean Energy Forum 2012

Monali Zeya Hazra, Clean Energy SpecialistUSAID /India, New Delhi


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Developed under the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Prevention (GEP)

Program.

Joint U.S.-India Climate Change initiative in the power sector.

Protocol of intent signed on July 1994 between USAID/India andNTPC Ltd. (the Indian counterpart).

Technical assistance provided by National Energy TechnologyLaboratory, USDoE.

Centre for Power Efficiency & EnvironmentalProtection (CenPEEP)

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Develop an institution to cater to the Indian power sector for:

GHG emissions reduction per unit of electricity generated from coal

fired power plants by performance optimization in terms of efficiency,availability & reliability.

Technology acquisition for performance optimization.

Institutionalization of cooperation for technology transfer.

Develop an institution, a knowledge think tank, at par withinternational facility to provide technical assistance to other Indianstate utilities.

Goal

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Strategy: A Win-Win

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Methodology

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Outcome and Impacts

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GEP resulted in avoidance of 99.1 million tonnes from 1995through 2010.


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Outcome and impacts

Highly cost effective. Per unit cost of Green House Gases(GHG) reduction - $0.32 per ton. Comparatively, averagecarbon emission reductions through Clean Development

Mechanism (CDM) was priced at $14/tonne in 2010.

Coal savings valued at $1.5 billion - savings equivalent to thecapital cost of building 2x1000 MW of new coal-firedgenerating capacity

Ambient air quality improvement, but no hard data

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CenPEEP An effective model Important part of NTPC and widely respected.

Brought changes at NTPC with significant emphasis on efficiencyimprovement.

Worked with 14State Electricity Boards (SEBs). Partial changesat SEBs.

Technically acclaimed publications - Heat Rate ImprovementGuidelines.

International awards such as World Climate Technology Award,USEPA Climate Protection Award.

Indian awards such as India Power Awards 2008 and Bureau ofIndian Standards Star Quality Award 2009.

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Learnings

Constraints on improved environmental and operationalperformance are primarily institutional rather than technical.

Significant gains in reducing GHGs, lowering costs, and

increasing reliability and availability can be through low-costmeasures.

Institutionalization essential for sustainability

Local capability building

Widespread dissemination and training

Successful transfer of technology depends on:

The type of technology and systems - low cost high benefit, sectoralneeds, wide replicability.

Demonstration (seeing is believing).

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Partnership to Advance Clean Energy - Deployment

Continue our coal work under new energy program PACE-D

Limited funding due to fossil fuel earmark.

Support centre of excellence in TA for super critical.

Develop a concept model power plant

Continue work on efficiency improvement but target state utilities.

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