This report describes the APEC project which aimed to develop guidelines for planning and cost assessment in relation to making future coal-fired plants in developing APEC economies ‘capture-ready’ as an aid to capacity building on carbon capture and storage in these economies.

1. Introduction
2. Carbon Dioxide Capture
3. Carbon Dioxide Transport and Storage
4. Capture-ready Concept for Coal-fired Power Plants
5. Capture-ready Plant Designs
6. Potential for Capture-ready Case Studies in Developing APEC Economies
7. Typical Coal-fired Plant
8. Planning Guidelines
9. Cost Assessment Guidelines
10. Additional Analyses Required
11. Summary and Conclusions