How to convert old coal-fired power stations for the transition to renewable energy

Options to convert coal-fired power station generating units for renewable energy operation –

• biomass back-up power
• hot-salt thermal energy storage and regeneration
• rotational inertia grid stabilisation

See – Torrefaction of biomass to ease fuel-handling burdens

It’ll be easier, quicker and cheaper to make the best of what we’ve already got than to demolish our coal-fired power stations in crimes of industrial vandalism and then have to build everything anew. 🙄

Or one or more generating units may not be converted initially but left as legacy units to serve if necessary as emergency generators of last resort.

• mothball for emergency coal-fired power

After all, one never knows and better to burn coal for a wee while than to let the lights go out.

Two coal-fired power turbines are to be kept going for longer to tackle the energy crisis, under plans drawn up by ministers.https://t.co/fwOSK1UvOJ

— Telegraph Business (@TeleBusiness) April 27, 2022