{"id":435,"date":"2010-08-06T11:23:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T15:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=435"},"modified":"2010-08-06T13:09:17","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T17:09:17","slug":"energy-dept-scales-back-futuregen-co2-capture-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=435","title":{"rendered":"Energy Dept. Scales Back FutureGen CO2 Capture Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/CoalPlant_SierraClub_200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-437\" title=\"CoalPlant_SierraClub_200\" src=\"http:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/CoalPlant_SierraClub_200.jpg\" alt=\"Coal at a power plant (Sierra Club\/Flickr)\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/CoalPlant_SierraClub_200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/CoalPlant_SierraClub_200-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/stlouis\/stories\/2010\/08\/02\/daily61.html\">St. Louis Business Journal<\/a> reports today that the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has backed away from its original plan to build a new carbon sequestration facility in southern Illinois, choosing instead to retrofit an existing power plant in the same region. The new design, funded by a $1 billion Recovery Act grant, is expected to reduce the cost by billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"http:\/\/energy.gov\/news\/9309.htm\">revised plan<\/a>, DoE will redevelop the Ameren Energy&#8217;s 200 megawatt oil-fired power plant in Meredosia, Illinois with advanced oxy-combustion technology, including a boiler, air separation unit, and CO2 purification and compression unit. They are expected to capture 90 percent of the CO2 and eliminate most sulfur oxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury, and particulate emissions.<\/p>\n<p>In Mattoon, Illinois &#8212; site of the original FutureGen plant &#8212; DoE will establish a regional CO2 storage facility. A 170-mile pipeline will carry an estimated 1 million tons of captured CO2 from Meredosia to Mattoon. It is expected to be the first in a regional network of pipelines carrying captured CO2.<\/p>\n<p>Costs of the FutureGen project became a prime concern when two companies in the project &#8212; American Electric Power Co. and Southern Co. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/stlouis\/stories\/2009\/06\/22\/daily64.html\">dropped out<\/a> because of the escalating price tag.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: <\/em>The reconverted plant is oil-fired, not coal-fired as originally reported. And the pipeline will stretch 170 miles. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/06\/business\/energy-environment\/06coal.html?src=busln&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=futuregen&amp;st=Search\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times story<\/a> for more.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sierraclub\/3427063154\/\">Sierra Club\/Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Business Journal reports today that the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has backed away from its original plan to build a new carbon sequestration facility in southern Illinois, choosing instead to retrofit an existing power plant in the same region. The new design, funded by a $1 billion Recovery Act grant, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[57,38],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-ventures","tag-carbon-capture","tag-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}