What we aim to do is make sure that projects are well aligned with business requirements; to define and design future assets that translate a company’s strategic objectives into tangible manufacturing facilities – and provide added value.
We’ll create algorithmic design tools to assess coal plant viability for boiler replacement, generate initial concepts using a design configurator in just days, and produce detailed design outputs for manufacturing.Our Design to Value strategy will deliver low project costs, as well as the rates of deployment and scale necessary to fully decarbonise the projected two terawatts of coal still in operation worldwide..
Creating clean energy hubs in communities across the world.Gogan believes it would be unforgivably unrealistic to think we could simply abandon the existing coal power plant infrastructure.These plants are the source of reliable electricity for citizens that need it across the world, and maintaining that energy is incredibly important for economic growth in places like Asia, China, India and Africa, as well as being vital for resilience against the climate impacts these areas are already facing..
Furthermore, in countries with old coal, including the US, Canada and Europe, entire communities are economically reliant on the coal plants.Shutting them down would cause substantial unemployment and hardship.
In the United States alone there are 260 gigawatts of operating coal.
Repowering the existing coal power plants using advanced heat sources presents a key political opportunity to garner bipartisan support for climate action in a way that maintains jobs, socio-economic benefits and tax revenues in those communities.. Another key point to consider is that the majority of the existing, global coal fleet is just fourteen years old, representing a trillion dollars of unrecovered capital.Although timber captures carbon, if left to rot naturally in an open-air landfill, it releases the stored carbon as well as methane, which has a greater global warming impact than CO2.
If incinerated, it generates energy and does not release methane but still releases the stored carbon along with other pollutants.However, if reused or upcycled, carbon remains stored offering long-lasting environmental benefits..
Some of these end-of-life difficulties with engineered timber relate to its size.The use of screeds, which are bound to the surface of timber and structural fixings also make it difficult to dismantle and reuse.. Long span engineered timber elements also undergo non-reversible long-term deformations that can limit its feasibility to be reused as a structural element.