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September 18, 2009
US, Chinese Companies Agree To Share CCS TechnologiesE&E News PM reports that Thermal Power Research Institute, a subsidiary of China’s largest power company Beijing-based China Huaneng Group, and Future Fuels LLC, a US coal gasification specialist, “announced a deal today to share technical information about capturing carbon dioxide emissions from ‘clean’ coal plants” that “will focus on coal-burning power plants slated for eastern Pennsylvania and northeastern China.”
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September 18, 2009
Southern Company to Deploy Clean Coal Technology in ChinaSouthern Company today announced that China will be the site for the first worldwide commercial implementation of the Transport Integrated Gasification technology for producing low-emission coal-based electricity.
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September 18, 2009
Colorado CCS Project Reveives Federal, State FundingThe Colorado Independent reported that the Colorado Governor’s Energy Office has also announced “a $3.8 million stimulus grant from the federal government will go to a project in Northwest Colorado looking into the possibility of sequestering carbon dioxide in deep geologic formations near the Craig Power Plant,” which will “investigate storing CO2 in three 8,000-foot, deep-rock aquifers containing salt water beneath Colorado State Land Board land south of the coal-fired power plant.”
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September 17, 2009
DOE Awards Funding For CCS Research And DevelopmentE&E News reports that on Wednesday the DOE “awarded more than $62 million in stimulus funding for carbon capture and storage research and development for the next three years” that focuses on “geologic sequestration site characterization, and sequestration training and research.” Secretary Chu said in a statement, “Given the importance of coal to our energy future in the United States, China and other countries, it's crucial that we develop ways to capture and store carbon pollution.”
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September 17, 2009
US, Canada Seek To Establish CCS FrameworkE&E News PM reports that during an update on the US and Canada’s clean energy plans, Secretary Chu and Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice said that they “hope to craft consistent regulatory frameworks for carbon sequestration projects as part of a ‘clean’ energy cooperation effort launched earlier this year.”
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September 16, 2009
APS Receives DOE Funding For CCS ResearchThe Arizona Republic reports that the Department of Energy announced Tuesday that “Arizona Public Service Co. will get $70.5 million in stimulus funding to study ways to cut carbon-dioxide emissions from coal power plants that contribute to global warming” as part of “$1.52 billion in the stimulus act earmarked for research into ways to capture and store carbon from power plants.” APS spokesman Steven Gotfried said, “This project allows us to research some of the issues with using coal and brings economic activity to a part of Arizona where the unemployment rate is about 13 percent.”
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September 15, 2009
Report provides road map for cutting price tag of carbon captureE&E's ClimateWire reports that a Clean Air Task Force report—to be released today—argues that potential processes that can gasify coal underground could be a breakthrough for power generators searching for a way to reduce their carbon footprints cheaply. The analysis provides a policy road map for bringing coal technologies in four research areas, including complex retrofits of old power plants and permanent storage of greenhouse gases, from the experimental stage to mass production.
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September 13, 2009
AEP’s West Virginia CCS Plant ProfiledClean Skies Sunday, from the “Energy & Environment Network,” reported, “American Electric Power, one of the largest U.S. utilities, is starting trials this month of an industrial-scale carbon capture and storage unit at one of its West Virginia plants that could end up being a model for the rest of the industry.
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September 11, 2009
CO2 Capture Pilot Facility DedicatedWOWK-TV reports on its website that “West Virginia's first carbon capture pilot plant was dedicated Thursday morning.” Alstom partnered “with Dow Chemical to design and build [the] pilot plant,” which will capture carbon dioxide from the flu gas of a coal-fired boiler at the Dow facility in South Charleston.” According to the AP, “the new technology could have a major impact on energy, environment and business.”
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September 09, 2009
Britain Expected To Benefit From Carbon Capture And Storage IndustryThe Financial Times reports that geologists from the British Geological Survey announced at the British Science Festival that the country could generate billions of pounds per year and create tens of thousands of jobs by selling space under the North Sea for the sequestration of captured carbon dioxide.
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