The U.S. Electric Power Sector and Climate Change Mitigation

This report explores the US electric power industry's options for reducing its greenhouse gas emissions over the next half century. Those options include new technologies that are still being developed - such as coal gasification with carbon capture and sequestration - as well as strategies that rely on existing technologies at different stages of commercial and technical readiness (such as nuclear and renewable generation), lower-carbon fuels (like natural gas), and efficiency improvements (both at the point of electricity production and end use). Many of these options, in addition to reducing CO{sub 2} emissions, also reduce conventional air pollutants.

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