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Energy 2000: Review of the Energy Policy of the Asian Development Bank : Future assistance in the changing context

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Coal

79. In the coal subsector, the following will also be applicable.

1. District heating: In DMCs with a cold climate, heat in winter represents a basic need, and where combined heat and power plants are used in urban centers to provide steam and hot water through district heating systems, ADB will help improve boiler efficiency, strengthen pipe networks, maximize plant utilization, minimize heat losses, control heat flow, and develop consumer metering arrangements, to make the operations environmentally and financially sustainable and to ensure that the basic needs, particularly of the poor, are met.

2. Clean coal: ADB will assist its DMCs in assimilating and commercializing advanced technologies for coal washing and extraction of coalbed methane, and in promoting the use of clean coal technologies such as fluidized bed combustion, supercritical boiler plants, integrated coal gasification combined cycle, catalytic reduction, baghouse filters, electrostatic precipitators, and flue gas desulfurization.

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