Industry Technology Demonstrations
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Solar Thermal Hybrid Demonstrations
Solar thermal hybrid applications could be the lowest-cost option for adding solar power to the generation fleet. Installing utility-scale solar thermal hybrid technologies at existing fossil-fueled plants could help generators meet renewable energy regulatory targets, reduce plant emissions, and avoid fuel costs.
- Solar Hybrid for Coal Plant (PDF 55KB)
- Solar Hybrid for Natural Gas (PDF 66KB)
Ion Transport Membrane for Low-Cost Oxygen Production Demonstration
Increasing demand for low-carbon electricity generation mean new power plants and other facilities that convert fossil fuels into cleaner liquids and chemicals need large new sources of oxygen. Successful development of ion transport membrane (ITM) technology will reduce the costs and improve the efficiency of advanced generating plants designed to reduce CO2 emissions.
- Details (PDF 153KB)
- ITM Project Deliverables (PDF 939KB)
- TIM Kickoff Meeting Story (PDF 114KB)
Post-Combustion Carbon Capture and Storage Demonstration
For pulverized coal plants to provide competitively priced electricity, they must have access to cost-effective CO2 capture systems and secure geologic storage. Two EPRI projects will demonstrate integrated carbon capture and storage (CCS) – a chilled-ammonia process at one, and another technology at a different plant – and the captured CO2 will be injected in two different kinds of underground formations.
- Details (PDF 184KB)
- CCS Project Deliverables (PDF 729KB)
IGCC with Carbon Capture and Storage Demonstration
Integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) plants offer the promise of lower costs of electricity with carbon capture systems. EPRI’s demonstrations will assess the optimal costs and designs for commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) from IGCC power systems and also provide important new data on long-term underground storage of CO2.
- Details (PDF 153KB)
Energy Efficiency Demonstration
One way to meet consumer demand for electricity and reduce CO2 emissions is to reduce power consumption by enhancing end-use energy efficiency. This demonstration focuses on the foundation of end-use electric utilization – the energy-consuming technologies that convert electricity in buildings into space conditioning and lighting.
- Details (PDF 123KB)
Smart Grid Demonstration
Significant carbon emissions reductions will require development of a number of new electric technologies. Deploying them poses more challenges – new distribution system capabilities. This project will demonstrate integrated distributed power generation, storage and demand-response technologies in a “virtual power plant.”
- Details (PDF 184KB)
Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage Demonstration
Achieving significant CO2 emission reductions requires, among other things, grid integration of large-scale renewable resources whose output fluctuates over time. The solution is energy storage systems, and a storage technology ready for near- term demonstration is the compressed air energy storage (CAES) technology. This demonstration will help utilities evaluate energy storage options.
- Details (PDF 205KB)
