Fig. 2: Positive externality and techno-economic analysis of Poverty alleviation with CCUS promotion.

a Distribution of poverty counties with CCUS potential and their basic conditions; b Difference of first-year electricity costs for a supercritical coal-fired power plant with post-combustion carbon capture in China, considering impact factor of poverty counties; c Cash flows and present values of break-even CCUS retrofit projects with linearly increasing CO2 prices; d: Distribution of NPV for CCS construction in poverty counties.