What is the paper about?
Coal-based carbon capture and storage (CCS), in addition to renewable energies, is increasingly being explored as a potential technology for decarbonizing India's power sector. This paper explores the prospects and challenges for coal-CCS in India's future low carbon electricity transition scenarios, and quantifies its relative benefits and trade-offs in comparison to successful renewable energies from multiple sustainability perspectives.

Why is this work important?
Our findings show that coal-CCS not only suffers from typical new technology development related challenges - such as a lack of technical potential assessments and necessary support infrastructure, and high costs - but also from severe resource constraints (especially water) in an era of global warming and the competition from outperforming renewable power sources. Thus, our study adds a considerable level of techno-economic and environmental nexus specificity to the current debate about coal-based large-scale CCS and the low carbon energy transition in emerging and developing economies in the Global South, taking India as a case study.

The entire paper and its supporting information can be accessed via the below link (Open Access): 
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/2/262