IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hal/journl/hal-04486785.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Economics of co-firing rice straw with coal in old and new coal power plants in Vietnam

Author

Listed:
  • An Ha Truong

    (CleanED - Clean Energy and Sustainable Development Lab - USTH - University of Science and Technology of Hanoi)

  • Minh Ha-Duong

    (CIRED - Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AgroParisTech - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - Université Paris-Saclay - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

The document provides an analysis of the economics of co-firing rice straw with coal in Vietnam's coal power plants, considering both old and new facilities. It explores the economic, social, environmental, and policy drivers for considering biomass energy, particularly the potential for fuel cost savings, job creation in rural areas, reduction in air pollutant emissions, and GHG emission mitigation. The study uses a financial model to evaluate the viability of co-firing, taking into account factors such as willingness to accept/pay and the external benefits of improved local air quality. Two case studies, Mong Duong 1 (a new plant) and Ninh Binh (an old plant), are examined to assess the job creation potential, impact on national trade balance, and environmental benefits of co-firing. The findings suggest that co-firing can provide significant benefits in terms of local air quality, which could justify the technology beyond the greenhouse gas emissions reductions, and it is recommended to implement Renewable Portfolio Standards in Vietnam.

Suggested Citation

  • An Ha Truong & Minh Ha-Duong, 2019. "Economics of co-firing rice straw with coal in old and new coal power plants in Vietnam," Post-Print hal-04486785, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04486785
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04486785. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: CCSD (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.