2009-10-27 00:55:06 - Utility Carbon Reduction Strategies to Drive Commercial Success - a new market research report on companiesandmarkets.com

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Introduction

Changes in political and public mindsets means European power utilities now face a future where continued high levels of carbon emissions are socially and financially untenable. Given the unmistakable drivers for the energy industry to reduce its carbon emissions, European utilities are increasingly challenged with having to rapidly enact successful long-term carbon reduction strategies.

Scope

*Cost forecasts for the six major European utilities should EC support for 100 % auctioning of allowances for the power sector from 2013 prevail.

*Insight into the various competitive, consumer demand and regulatory forces driving the development of European utility carbon reduction strategies.

*Data concerning the comparative effectiveness of different mitigation strategies across the major

 

 

European utilities since the turn of the century.

*Marginal carbon abatement potentials of the six most significant existing and emerging power generation technologies in Europe.

Highlights

Regulation, competition and consumer demand are driving power retailers and generators to develop successful carbon reduction strategies. European utilities must address the need for long-term successful carbon abatement strategies or face prohibitively high compliance costs under a broadening EU-ETS carbon cap-and-trade mechanism.

The most appropriate long-term carbon abatement strategy for a power generator varies from utility to utility and country to country. In the UK and Germany, the few generators with low coal dependency will favor a switch to more energy efficient generation, yet the bulk of all generators will seek to leverage carbon capture and storage.

Since the turn of the century, European utility carbon mitigation strategies have yielded very different results. Today, the same utilities rely increasingly on emerging technologies with wide-ranging and rapidly improving abatement potentials which could reduce power sector emissions by up to 35% by 2030, at a marginal cost lower than EUR40/tCO2e.

Reasons to Purchase

*Assess the likely carbon compliance costs faced by EDF, Centrica, Iberdrola, E.ON, Vattenfall and RWE based on a range of carbon price scenarios.

*Determine which strategies the largest UK and German national power providers are likely to adopt based on each country´s generation capacity mix.

*Rapidly benchmark the relative availability and marginal abatement potential of the six principal carbon mitigation technologies and options.