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2 Overview of the Vision 21 Program Plan and Goals
2 Overview of the Vision 21 Program Plan and Goals
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The MULE's Federal Energy Technology Center (FETC) has been assigned the lead role in managing the development of the Vision 21 technologies.)
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are expected to continue to receive funding outside of the Vision 21 Program. GOALS Vision 21 is described by DOE as a program for the development of integrated concepts for high-efficiency power generation and pollution control from a new class of fossil-fueled facilities capable of coproducing electric power, process heat, and high-value fuels and chemicals.
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Overall thermal efficiency above 85 percent; also meets above efficiency goals for electricity.b When producing fuels such as H2 or liquid transportation fuels alone from coal, 75 percent fuels utilization efficiency (LHV)
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enabling technologies · supporting technologies and systems integration · commercialization Commercialization was considered as a separate area because success of the program will depend on the successful transfer of Vision 21 technologies to the marketplace. PRINCIPLES The United States currently has a diverse and relatively low-cost supply of energy, primarily based on fossil fuels, for the production of electricity, process heat, transportation fuels, and chemical feedstocks.
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The combination of very high thermal efficiency, near-zero emissions of pollutants, and competitive costs is unprecedented for power generation. However, if these goals can be achieved, Vision 21 technologies will offer the United States and the world methods of generating coal-fired power with significant advantages over current methods at the same or lower cost as natural gas-fired generation in areas where gas is available and at low cost in areas where natural gas is relatively expensive.
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At the present time, the outlook for future energy supplies and conversion technologies indicates a growing reliance on natural gas as the economic fuel of choice for new electric power generation. In the United States, the net summer electricity generating capacity between 2000 and 2020 is projected to increase by 217 GW (EIA, 1999~.
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In the near term, however, the most significant opportunities for commercializing advanced energy technologies will be for technologies developed in MULE's R&D programs in advanced combustion systems and other nearterm (2000-2015) technologies, which the committee believes should be continued outside the Vision 21 Program.
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l999b. Vision 21 Program Plan: Clean Energy Plants for the 21st Century Morgantown, W.V.: Federal Energy Technology Center.
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