Widespread impacts from climate change are already here. Our actions in this decade are critical. There is a widening gap between decarbonization policy targets and the real world of clean energy deployment. It is highly probable that the world will fail to achieve Net Zero emissions by 2050 and experience catastrophic climate change in this century unless new solutions are pursued at speed and scale. Repowering existing coal plant infrastructure is the largest single carbon abatement opportunity on the planet and could greatly accelerate the clean energy transition.
This Climate Solution Profile describes a REPOWER initiative and system that will enable the rapid repurposing of coal plant fleets with non-emitting advanced heat sources -- leveraging existing sites, infrastructure, transmission lines, industry knowledge, workforces, capital, and supply chains to accelerate the global transition clean energy.