News & Events Archive
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May 12, 2010
ACCCE Statement on Introduction of Kerry-Lieberman Legislation
American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) President and CEO Steve Miller released a statement in response to today’s introduction of new climate change legislation by Senators Kerry and Lieberman.
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September 13, 2009
AEP’s West Virginia CCS Plant Profiled
Clean 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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October 14, 2009
Local Officials Tour AEP’s Mountaineer Plant
The Point Pleasant Register reports, “American Electric Power’s (AEP) Mountaineer Plant, located in New Haven, is one of the main power plants in the area.” Yesterday, “members of the Mason County Area Chamber of Commerce took a tour of the facility prior to eating lunch, which was catered by the Eastern Star Group.” A “presentation detailing the Mountaineer Plant’s Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Validation Project” was given to all those present.
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October 29, 2009
AEP To Unveil Carbon Capture Project Today
West Virginia Public Broadcasting reports, “The Mountaineer coal-fired power plant in New Haven is getting international attention because Friday morning, AEP officials are scheduled to unveil the plant’s carbon capture and sequestration technology.” The facility “is the first of its kind to both capture CO2 emissions and sequester them underground, says AEP spokesman Pat Hemlepp.”
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December 08, 2009
Can burying carbon emissions work?
CNN reports that “an expensive, high-stakes experiment is under way -- one that could fundamentally alter the way the world manages carbon emissions” – at American Electric Power's Mountaineer, which “looks like its traditional coal-fire counterparts. But the newest area of the plant, a towering five-story, multi-million dollar structure that began operating this fall, makes this facility one-of-a-kind.”
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