Alstom CEO Discusses Future Of Coal, CCS

In an interview on E&E TV’s OnPoint, Pierre Gauthier, the US president and CEO of Alstom, said because coal is almost utilized worldwide, you will not be able to remove it. So the best thing to do is to be able to capture those emissions like we do today on the nitrous oxides and the sulfur oxides and we don't think twice about it. And if we go back 20 years ago everybody thought the cost would be unbearable for that. Maybe in 20 years we won't think twice about removing the CO2.” Gauthier said of his company’s CCS projects, “We Energy has been a success. It's what we call a pilot project. … It has achieved over 90 percent capture of CO2. … We're still hoping that by 2015 we'll be able to offer commercial technologies to capture CO2.”

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