TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact assessment of CO2 mitigation options in Korea using energy system analysis model
AU - Jegarl, Seong
AU - Baek, Jeom In
AU - Jang, Dong Sik
AU - Ryu, Chong Kul
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by MOCIE (Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy) in Korea, and whose support is gratefully acknowledged. Special thanks go to Colin Nathan and Andrew Minchener in IEA Clean Coal Centre.
PY - 2009/2
Y1 - 2009/2
N2 - The Korea Electric Power Research Institute (KEPRI) has performed a study to analyze the deployment impact of CO2 mitigation options in the power generation sector in Korea, with IEA Clean Coal Centre. The goal of this study is the identification of the viable technology and legal options for CO2 mitigation, and the impact assessment of the options for the Korean power generation sector. The MARKAL modeling package of IEA/ETSAP was used as an appropriate tool to make the database of Korean energy system in the model and assess the effects of the options. Several scenarios were made to study the effect of CO2 emission reductions on the Korean power generation sector, and these were classified as the Base Scenario, New Technology Scenario, Carbon Tax Scenario, Total Carbon Emission Cap Scenario, and mixtures of the scenarios. Under the base scenario based on the National Electricity Plan of Korea, the future power generation will be dominated by nuclear and coal power plants, with some of natural gas fired plant and a very small proportion of renewables. However, with increasing pressure to mitigate CO2 emissions, the analysis results of all four scenarios and combination of the scenarios showed that Korea would have to adopt a little different approach. An extensive modeling work was, therefore, undertaken to analyze the impact of various measures on introduction of new technologies and policies in order to achieve significant CO2 emissions reduction. As results of this work, we found estimated average cost for a ton carbon mitigation and estimated amount of CO2 emission reduction by application of each scenario including constraint of lower limit of coal power generation for security of energy supplies in Korea. The results obtained are to be suggested as recommendation in establishing a sustainable energy portfolio within the Korean power generation sector.
AB - The Korea Electric Power Research Institute (KEPRI) has performed a study to analyze the deployment impact of CO2 mitigation options in the power generation sector in Korea, with IEA Clean Coal Centre. The goal of this study is the identification of the viable technology and legal options for CO2 mitigation, and the impact assessment of the options for the Korean power generation sector. The MARKAL modeling package of IEA/ETSAP was used as an appropriate tool to make the database of Korean energy system in the model and assess the effects of the options. Several scenarios were made to study the effect of CO2 emission reductions on the Korean power generation sector, and these were classified as the Base Scenario, New Technology Scenario, Carbon Tax Scenario, Total Carbon Emission Cap Scenario, and mixtures of the scenarios. Under the base scenario based on the National Electricity Plan of Korea, the future power generation will be dominated by nuclear and coal power plants, with some of natural gas fired plant and a very small proportion of renewables. However, with increasing pressure to mitigate CO2 emissions, the analysis results of all four scenarios and combination of the scenarios showed that Korea would have to adopt a little different approach. An extensive modeling work was, therefore, undertaken to analyze the impact of various measures on introduction of new technologies and policies in order to achieve significant CO2 emissions reduction. As results of this work, we found estimated average cost for a ton carbon mitigation and estimated amount of CO2 emission reduction by application of each scenario including constraint of lower limit of coal power generation for security of energy supplies in Korea. The results obtained are to be suggested as recommendation in establishing a sustainable energy portfolio within the Korean power generation sector.
KW - CO mitigation options
KW - Energy system analysis
KW - Korean electric power sector
KW - MARKAL model
KW - Scenario analysis
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U2 - 10.1016/j.egypro.2009.02.174
DO - 10.1016/j.egypro.2009.02.174
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:67650098653
VL - 1
SP - 3747
EP - 3754
JO - Energy Procedia
JF - Energy Procedia
SN - 1876-6102
IS - 1
T2 - 9th International Conference on Greenhouse Gas Control Technologies, GHGT-9
Y2 - 16 November 2008 through 20 November 2008
ER -