Gas, coal generation not stranded assets, but energy transition opportunities: industry experts

摘要

Power industry experts pushed back against the premise that gas- and coal-fired generation infrastructure are stranded assets, instead emphasizing the grid’s continued need for gas and the value of existing interconnect rights, in a panel discussion at Platts’ Financing US Power Conference Oct. 20. Blending hydrogen into natural gas, investing in high-efficiency combined cycle plants, and having policies at the state- or ISO-level that reward reliability, such as capacity markets, were all ways that gas-fired plants could navigate the energy transition and continue to provide reliability to the grid, panelists said.