DOE Provides $1bn to Coal Power Plant with Carbon Capture

“The US Department of Energy will provide about $1 billion of cost-shared funding to the FutureGen Industrial Alliance for the FutureGen 2.0 Project, a public-private partnership developing the world’s first commercial-scale, coal-fueled oxy-combustion electric generation project integrated with carbon capture and geologic storage”.

“The Alliance, cooperating with Ameren Energy Resources, will upgrade one unit in a power plant currently owned by Ameren near Meredosia, Ill. The repowered unit will include oxy-combustion and carbon capture technologies designed to capture at least 90 percent of its CO2 emissions during steady-state operation and reduce other emissions to near zero. The captured CO2 will be transported through an approximately 30-mile pipeline to wells where it will be injected approximately 4,000 feet below ground into a geologic saline formation for permanent storage.”