Future large scale deployment of coal power with CCS and the
intrinsic resource limitations of coal introduce several strategic issues
that require attention in development and deployment of CCS technologies,
and increased coal consumption for carbon capture adds
complexity to this problem. Several studies [3,7,8] aim to projecting
future coal production while other studies aim to describe future energy
systems with CCS [9e11]. The literature however is deficient in
investigations regarding the connection and consistency between
available resources and implied resource demand amongst such
scenarios.