Fossil energy R and D for a competitive power industry

摘要

This paper discusses the vision for Morgantown Energy Technology Center's (METC's) advanced power generation program. It covers the following four topics: the status of the electric industry as it deregulates, particularly those aspects of deregulation that impact advanced power generation technologies; a snapshot of the environmental trends that influence the program; how research, and development, and demonstration (RD&D) program is being restructured in response to these trends; and the status of METC's merger with its sister center, the Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center.