FutureMetrics: Why is a coal-fired power station converted to wood pellets?

This very short white paper explains why all countries or regions that seriously consider reducing carbon emissions in the power generation industry should use particles instead of coal in their renewable energy generation portfolio.

FutureMetrics has published a number of years of solutions to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the power industry, including white papers for co-firing or full-burning.

FutureMetrics' previous white paper also explains why particulate fuels are low-carbon fuels. This short article shows a real-life example of how particle fuels can be a part of a solution in a coal-fired power station.

The picture below is from last week and shows the power generation combination in England.

Currently, most of the electricity produced by British pellets comes from the Drax power station. The Drax power station has six 645 MW generating units, four of which are fully converted to use wood pellet fuel. The 396 MW Lynemouth power station has also been converted from coal. For the use of particles.

In the above chart, one can clearly see how the wind (light green) does not blow in the early part of the week. Of course, the sun (yellow) never shines at night. In addition, the particle power generation is taking some peak load, which reduces the use. The need for coal and natural gas.

From Argus Direct October 25, 2018 Information: Compared to last year, the UK's strong biomass power output reduced the output of some combined cycle gas turbines (CCGT), while the British utility company Drax was in peak load time. The power output has been increasing to get a higher price. So far this month, the biomass power output has averaged 2.3GW.

Due to the conversion of coal and biomass to the 645MW Drax unit and the 396MW Lynemouth power station, the installed capacity of biomass increased by approximately 1.1GW year-on-year, with a total capacity of approximately 3.2GW.

The average output of the CCGT is 12.4 GW, which is lower than the 13.5 GW in October 2017.

This clearly shows that using renewable low-carbon pellet fuel to generate electricity can provide reliable on-demand base load and peak capacity.

This strategy is the only way to generate renewable heat, which is unaffected by uncontrollable factors and intermittent effects.