Mitigating Climate Change with Renewable and High-Efficiency Generation

Abstract

This paper focuses on the status of policy studies on Global Climate Change and how renewable and high-efficiency generation technology can be part of the solution. It considers critical technologies and solutions toward realizing the targets set in the Kyoto treaty. Discussed is energy effi ciency in power generation, environmental benefits of high-effi ciency gas turbines in competitive energy markets which display less NOx and CO 2 emissions per unit of power produced while providing power generators with the most competitive electricity, and experience in India in mitigating climate change with renewable energy as seen by the UN and an advisor to the Indian government in nonconventional energy sources. Also discussed is stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere that will present dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system as called for under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Keywords:

• Global Climate Change Renewables And High-EFFICIENCY Electric Power Generation Electric Energy Efficiency Programs Low Nox Gas Turbinebased Electric Power Plants Atmospheric Co Stabilization Greenhouse Gas Emissions In Electricity Generation