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Clean Air Markets

Coal-Fired Power Plant Heat Rate Reductions

View a report that identifies systems and equipment in coal-fired power plants where efficiency improvements can be realized, and provides estimates of the resulting net plant heat rate reductions and costs for implementation.

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Coal-Fired Power Plant Heat Rate Reductions (PDF)(48 pp, 487 K, 01/22/2009)