{"id":11,"date":"2011-12-03T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T23:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2012-01-16T08:29:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T14:29:49","slug":"cross-state-air-pollution-rule-csapr-%e2%80%93-aka-casper-%e2%80%93-coal-unit-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/03\/cross-state-air-pollution-rule-csapr-%e2%80%93-aka-casper-%e2%80%93-coal-unit-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) \u2013 AKA Casper \u2013 Coal Unit Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have reviewed the EPA emissions data for 2011 and compared it with 2010.\u00a0\u00a0 There are many coal units who no longer are showing up in the list and\/or are no longer emitting nearly as much.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a clear sign units are retiring, retrofitting, and\/or installing control equipment.\u00a0\u00a0 I was able to identify a few units that have actually converted to gas.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the time when I examined retrofitting a coal unit to burn gas, the economics have to be driven for grid stability and\/or capacity purposes.\u00a0 Converting the unit to burn gas typically leads to worse heat rate and coal units compared to combine cycles are already 30% less efficient.\u00a0\u00a0 Adding less efficiency will lead to having a very expensive peaker on the system.<\/p>\n<p>If there is interest to mapping your system data to the latest EPA releases I do have a proven system to do this.\u00a0\u00a0 Please send me an email if your intersted in this.\u00a0 I could save you much time and headache.<\/p>\n<p>David<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:dkb@allenergyconsulting.com\">dkb@allenergyconsulting.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>614-356-0484<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have reviewed the EPA emissions data for 2011 and compared it with 2010.\u00a0\u00a0 There are many coal units who no longer are showing up in the list and\/or are no longer emitting nearly as much.\u00a0\u00a0 This is a clear sign units are retiring, retrofitting, and\/or installing control equipment.\u00a0\u00a0 I was able to identify a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-market-insights","category-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}