“The ability to reduce the carbon emissions from a [power] plant certainly is a de-risking factor, because I think most plant owners agree that the likelihood of some carbon control or carbon pricing is still very, very real…To get further to a deep decarbonization in the electricity sector over the next several decades, the natural gas sector needs to be decarbonized in a cost effective way.”

Roger featured in Utility Dive’s latest on carbon capture and the implications of extending the 45Q tax credit.

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By Roger Ballentine and Jennifer Jenkins.

Outside the realm of climate change deniers, there is broad consensus that we need rapid and deep decarbonization of modern energy systems to have any chance of stabilizing global average temperature rise in the neighborhood of two degrees Celsius, the threshold widely viewed as critical for avoiding the most dangerous impacts of climate change.