The Cleaner Fossil Energy Task Force recently released the Asia-Pacific Gas Market Growth Executive Summary and Key Findings, produced under APP Cleaner Fossil Energy Task Force project CFE-06-08. This report analyzes the Asia-Pacific region's gas market conditions, identifies impediments to and provides solutions for improving the regional gas market conditions.
The Cleaner Fossil Energy Task Force is pleased to announce it hosted a joint technical workshop with Methane to Markets in Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada on methane leakage prevention and mitigation activities on September 17, 2009. The session highlighted links between the development, deployment and diffusion of clean technologies by the Methane to Markets Partnership and the APP.
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Cleaner Fossil Energy Task Force
Chair: Australia
Co-Chair: China
Action Plan - Adobe PDF format
Coal and gas are, and will remain, critical fuels for all seven Partner economies. There are a range of key advanced coal and gas technologies with the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions levels, air-borne pollutants and other environmental impacts.
These are focused on a suite of technologies associated with CO2 capture and storage, as well as complementary advanced power generation systems. These include integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC), oxy-fuel and post-combustion capture. Other technologies such as ultrasupercritical pulverised fuel, coal cleaning and treatment, poly-generation, hydrogen production, enhanced coal bed and waste coal mine methane and coal gasification and liquefaction are also important elements of a cleaner fossil energy future.
It is well understood that the costs of new technologies decline over time and a key objective for the Partnership is to accelerate the development and deployment of these technologies through collaborative research and on-going demonstration so as to reduce costs and facilitate the availability of a broad range of accessible and affordable low-emission technologies. Opportunities exist for integrating key technologies to achieve lower- or zero-emitting power production facilities.
In addition, there is a need to identify and address barriers to the delivery of liquefied natural gas, which is also needed to meet the rapidly growing need for high quality, affordable and low emission fuel in Asia-Pacific Partnership countries.