When investing in power generation, a series of trade-offs are made between greenhouse gas emissions occurring during generation, and those created along the energy value chain from extraction to consumption. With natural gas a key resource in many DFID-supported countries, ICED investigated emissions trade-offs between locating a gas-fired power plant close to a gas field and transmitting the power generated to a load centre (incurred electrical losses), versus locating the power plant close to a load centre, requiring transmission of the gas.
Understanding greenhouse gas emissions in gas to power value chains
This work was carried out under the Infrastructure and Cities for Economic Development (ICED) facility.
ICED supported DFID country offices, central teams and ODA-spending Other Government Departments to deliver DFID’s Economic Development Strategy by scaling up programming and investment in infrastructure and cities. It operated between February 2016 and July 2019.
