EMISSIONS STANDARDS PROPOSED FOR NEW POWER STATIONS

摘要

The Federal Government invited submissions from stakeholders on its policy to require all new power stations to meet best practice emissions standards and be CCS ready. The discussion paper A Cleaner Future for Power Stations, released November 2010, outlines a range of new requirements. These include all new coal-fired power stations to meet an emission standard by 2011 with reference to best practice coal-fired generation technology; only granting approval to new coal-fired generators which meet the emissions standard and are capable of retrofitting CCS technologies; requiring all new coal-fired generators to retrofit CCS technologies within an appropriate time after they become commercially available; and extending the Energy Efficiency Opportunities program to cover all existing generators.