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July 20, 2009
Stimulus Helps Bring Calif. Petcoke Plant Closer to RealityThe Greenwire blog on the New York Times website reports on a $308 million grant from the DOE for a 250-megawatt facility “is designed to filter out 90 percent of its carbon dioxide for permanent underground storage in an adjacent oil field.” In a statement, Secretary Chu said, “These new technologies will not only help fight climate change, they will also create new jobs and position the United States as a leader in carbon capture and storage technologies for many years.”
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July 20, 2009
DOE Announces Plans For CCS Project In AlabamaE&E News PM reported the Energy Department yesterday announced plans to “build a demonstration project for carbon capture and sequestration technologies at a coal-fired power plant in Alabama.” The DOE said the “partnership will begin capturing and storing CO2 in 2011 and should inject 150,000 tons of it annually into the saline reservoir 9,000 feet underground for at least the project's four-year lifespan.”
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July 20, 2009
RTI working with Energy Department on coal plant cleanupsThe Triangle Business Journal reported RTI International and the Energy Department will develop a new cleanup “designed to remove trace elements of mercury and arsenic, to capture the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, CO2, and to extract nearly all of the sulfur from the synthetic coal gas, the cocktail produced when coal is gassified.” The effort “is part of DOE’s stated mission of reducing the emission level at coal-fired plants around the U.S. to near zero.”
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July 20, 2009
Emerson, Secure partner on $800M plantThe St. Louis Business Journal reported, “An Emerson unit has partnered with Secure Energy Inc. to help build an $800 million” plant in Decatur, Illinois. It “would be the first coal gasification-to-synthetic natural gas plant to be constructed in the United States in two decades.” The Business Journal said the “facility will serve as a template for four additional clean coal plants that Secure Energy plans to build elsewhere in the nation.”
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July 16, 2009
Carbon capture pilot plant in S.C. to yield knowledgeThe Charleston (WV) Daily Mail reported, “A carbon capture pilot plant under construction in South Charleston is expected to yield knowledge that helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants around the world.” The Daily Mail said the “pilot plant will capture about 1,800 tons of carbon dioxide a year.
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July 13, 2009
Countries betting tech can clean up coalU.S. investment in CCS research, development and deployment is expected to double between fiscal years 2009 and 2010, from $3.6 billion to $7.2 billion, according to a report by Gallagher and colleagues.
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July 11, 2009
Guaranteed loan sought to build energy centerThe proposed $3.5 billion Taylorville Energy Center has cleared a major hurdle, the company said Friday: selection by the Department of Energy to seek a guaranteed loan of up to $2.6 billion. The federal loan guarantee would significantly reduce the cost of financing the clean-coal facility, according to Tenaska, a news release from the proposed clean-coal facility’s managing partner.
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July 10, 2009
OSU snags more than $300,000 for coal researchOhio State University is getting more than $300,000 in grant money to pursue clean coal research projects at its Columbus campus.
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July 07, 2009
Opinion: New clean coal plant needs to be a part of Michigan's energy solutionCoal needs to be part of the mix, to make sure we have power 24-7. As much as the environmental zealots would have you believe otherwise, without coal there would be no electric reliability on days when the wind's not blowing.
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July 07, 2009
Opinion: Idaho Gov. Predicts High Utility Bills Under LegislationIn a recent letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, our Sen. Mike Crapo and other members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee wrote that "some estimates place the total economic footprint of (climate) legislation in the trillions of dollars." They also point out that those costs will affect "families, farmers, drivers and workers" with "higher prices for power, gasoline, diesel, food and other consumable goods."
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