Insight
US coal-fired unit retirements, Part II: a refined look at supplier risk
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Report summary
Our recent Insight, "US coal-fired retirements: high risk to low sulphur production" analysed 2012 coal deliveries to plants that will, or are expected to, experience some level of coal-fired unit retirement by 2021. In this Insight we refine our analysis to consider retirements at the unit level and provide an assessment of supplier risk on that basis.
Table of contents
- Weak dark spreads coupled with MATS compliance costs doom coal-fired generation
- Supplier risk will fall into several categories
- Surviving coal units will run at higher capacity factors
Tables and charts
This report includes 4 images and tables including:
- Coal-fired capacity retirements by census region* (MW)
- Estimated 2012 basin consumption at retiring units*
- Estimated 2012 supplier consumption at retiring units
- Actual 2012 and forecast EGU consumption
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