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Frank Princiotta, Director, Air Pollution Prevention and Control Division, U.S. EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, reviewed modeling conducted by the IEA. To reach IEA’s target scenario of reducing greenhouse gases 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2050, a daunting number of new power stations would have to be built. Roughly two-thirds of the technologies needed to reach the target are “new” technologies, not yet in commercial-scale applications. Frank also discussed Obama’s recently created Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Task Force and the corresponding goal of having 5-10 commercial scale demonstration projects online in the US by 2016. |
