Power plants advanced emission controls

The World Bank grants financing for fossil fuel electricity generation, yet finances only facilities that have advanced emission control equipment. And although the World Bank has never financed a nuclear power plant, a zero carbon emitter, it is vciy active in evaluating hydropower projects, helping to establish the World Commission on Large Dams. 

For stationary sources such as power plants, environmental regulations in the United States and elsewhere require plants be built using "Best Available Control Technologies" (BACT). In the United States, these regulations control SO2, NO,., and particulate emissions. However, holding older plants to the same standards often is much more difficult and expensive. A plant built in 1960 to burn coal, for example, may be very expensive to retrofit with advanced emission control technologies, such as scrubbers for SO2. 

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