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Chris Nichols, U.S. Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory (DOE/NETL), discussed the lab’s effort to set realistic goals for efficiency improvements on a fleet-wide basis in the US. Their analyses suggest that efficiency improvements of 2 to 5 percentage points can be achieved fleet-wide over the next ten years. This would also result in a 1.5 percent to 3.3 percent reduction in total US CO2 emissions. Chris said that efficiency improvements will be the key to near term CO2 reductions, letting other technologies have time to develop to the commercialization stage. |
