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Just 5% of power plants are responsible for 73% of electricity emissions

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April 1, 2023
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Worst plants produce their emissions Each year, a sprawling coal power plant in Rogowiec, Poland, emits more CO2 than many

countries—in 2018, roughly 38 million metric tons. It’s the most polluting power plant

in the world. It’s also one of a relatively small number of power plants globally

that are responsible for the majority of CO2 emissions from making electricity.

In a new study, researchers combed through emissions data from more than 29,000

fossil fuel power plants in 221 countries to identify the biggest polluters,

building on a book published last year, Super Polluters: Tackling the

World’s Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions. The top 5% of polluters, they found, were responsible for 73% of electricity-sector emissions. Six of the plants are in

China and other parts of East Asia, two are in India, and two are in Europe.

Study coauthor Don Grant, a professor of sociology and fellow of the Renewable

and Sustainable Energy Institute at the University of Colorado Boulder,

says that it was striking “how a small set of plants could have such a

disproportionate impact on electricity-based carbon pollution.”

Focusing on changes at those plants, then, could also have a disproportionate

impact on shrinking emissions.

Open freight cars full of coal at Czechowice-Dziedzice, Poland. 

The list of super polluters could help guide activists and policy;

countries also could use
the analysis to target the most polluting plants in their own borders, even if
they aren’t at the top of the global list. “It could be used by climate activists to
organize more protests aimed at particular plants and their parent companies,”
Grant says. “It could be used as part of a legal strategy that seeks to hold particular plants
liable for the disproportionate pollution they create. Replacing or retrofitting
super polluting power plants could be the
centerpiece of major infrastructure projects. For countries that are not yet ready
or willing to shiftto renewables, these data provide some alternative mitigation strategies.”

Some changes are already underway. In Poland, for example, the coal power plant

in Rogowiec now plans to shut down by 2036, after environmental groups filed

a lawsuit against the coal plant operator (Poland also realized that the plant wouldn’t

be financially viable). Still, that’s more than a decade away—and after the world is predicted

to blow the “carbon budget” left to keep global warming under 35 degrees (1.5 degrees Celsius)

and avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

In cases where plants won’t close in the near future, the report suggests that other

changes could still make a significant difference. If the worst-polluting power plants got efficiency upgrades, new carbon capture additions, or switched to different fuel,

the researchers calculate that emissions from the world’s electricity production could

drop between 17% and 49%. That’s a very big deal: Making electricity is

the single largest contributor to climate emissions.

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