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

摘要

Power industry experts pushed back against the premise that gas- andcoal-fired generation infrastructure are stranded assets, insteademphasizing the grid’s continued need for gas and the value of existinginterconnect rights, in a panel discussion at Platts’ Financing US PowerConference Oct. 20.Blending hydrogen into natural gas, investing in high-efficiencycombined cycle plants, and having policies at the state- or ISO-levelthat reward reliability, such as capacity markets, were all ways thatgas-fired plants could navigate the energy transition and continue toprovide reliability to the grid, panelists said.