David C. Rode
Carnegie Mellon University
21 Papers
46 Citations
David C. Rode is an academic researcher from Carnegie Mellon University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Communications system & Capital cost. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 18 publications.
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Papers
The retirement cliff: Power plant lives and their policy implications
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined more than a century of U.S. power plant additions and retirements in conjunction with several decades of utility capital investment data and concluded that the pace of retirements will increase significantly in the decade after 2030 for most reasonable estimates of physical life.
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A techno-economic assessment of carbon-sequestration tax incentives in the U.S. power sector
TL;DR: In this paper, a unit-specific techno-economic model ESTEAM was extended to include coal-fired and natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) retrofitted CCS capacity to evaluate CCS for sequestration in the projected 2030 U.S. fossil-fuel fleet.
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Transitioning to a carbon-constrained world: Reductions in coal-fired power plant emissions through unit-specific, least-cost mitigation frontiers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a method that uses unique coal-fired electric generating unit (EGU) characteristics to evaluate multiple mitigation-technology options under local fuel prices; the result of which is a least-cost mitigation frontier for nine EGU-specific mitigation solutions created within a common assessment framework.
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Catastrophic Risk and Securities Design
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine major factors influencing the market for catastrophe bonds and conclude that psychological factors have a major impact on the pricing of these bonds, and on the lack of acceptance they have encountered from investors.
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Six principles to guide large-scale carbon capture and storage development
David C. Rode,Jeffrey L. Anderson,Haibo Zhai,Paul S. Fischbeck +3 more
- 01 Sep 2023
TL;DR: Researchers propose six guiding principles to accelerate large-scale carbon capture and storage development, including a portfolio approach, clean-energy commons, and stakeholder collaboration, to bridge the gap between government goals and current technology adoption.
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