August 2009
University Of Texas Among Those Awarded CCS Research Grant
The Washington Examiner reported that Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced Thursday that “the University of Texas at Austin is one of seven organizations receiving funding to develop sequestration technology training projects.” The $8.4 million awarded to the university “will be used to train site developers, geologists, engineers, and technicians in order to facilitate the transfer of knowledge and technologies for CO2 sequestration.” Said Chu, “These projects will train workers for a clean energy economy and help position the United States as a leader in carbon capture and storages technolo
Read full article Carbon Capture Project Proposed For Wise County Plant
The Bristol Herald-Courier reports, “A demonstration project to remove carbon dioxide from coal-fired smokestack emissions has been proposed for a controversial power plant under construction in Wise County, Va., and the project could be partially funded with federal stimulus dollars.”
Read full article California To Start Certification Process For CCS Plant
Bloomberg News reports that California’s Energy Commission said that “it will consider approving a carbon-capture plant proposed by a joint venture of units of Rio Tinto Plc and BP Plc.” The project, which “will require more than $1 billion in investment,” will “convert blends of petroleum coke and coal into hydrogen that will be used to fuel a power station,” and “will also capture 90 percent of the carbon dioxide produced.”
Read full article AEP Seeks Stimulus Money For Carbon Capture Projects
American Electric Power wants $334 million in federal stimulus money to build the country's first commercial-scale system to capture carbon dioxide emitted from coal-fired power plants and bury it underground. The system would be used in New Haven, W.Va., at AEP's Mountaineer plant, home to one of the biggest fossil-fueled power generators in the world.
Read full article PNNL Develops Liquid That Can Clean Power Plant Emissions
The Oregonian reports, “Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., have developed a reusable organic liquid that can pull harmful gases such as carbon dioxide or sulfur dioxide out of industrial emissions from power plants.
Read full article Project Seeks To Use Supersonic Shock-Waves For CO2 Compression
An Energy Department-backed project is using supersonic shock-wave technology used in jet engines to compress carbon dioxide for storage at coal-fired power plants and other industrial sites. The goal: Develop the cheapest, fastest and most efficient compressors.
Read full article British Official Urges Development Of CCS Technology
David Kidney, Undersecretary of state for the Department of Energy and Climate Change in the UK, writes, "With world demand for coal set to increase by over 60% over the period 2006-30, according to the International Energy Agency, as countries like China and India build the new power stations they need, it is clear that there is no credible solution to climate change without CCS."
Read full article Cap-and-Trade Interests Try to Break Through Health Care Clutter
With health care town halls continuing to dominate the August recess, energy and environmental interest groups are making an aggressive lobbying push to bring the climate change debate to the fore. The ACCCE launched a $1 million, two-week national ad buy Friday. The ad campaign, called “Real People, Real Stories,” will largely air on cable networks. Still, ACCCE Senior Vice President of Communications Joe Lucas acknowledges that grabbing the public’s attention is difficult while the health care debate is front and center at town halls across the country.
Read full article Work Goes On Quietly At West Virginia Carbon Sequestration Project
Quietly, and with little fanfare, an experiment is in progress in West Virginia to see if carbon extracted from coal can be safely stored thousands of feet below the earth's surface. For some 18 months, the research has been undertaken at the Mountaineer plant of American Electric Power Co. in New Haven to see if the by-product of coal can be put away without harming the environment - an integral part of clean coal technology.
Read full article What They're Saying about Energy and the Environment
With the congressional climate change bill moving through the Senate and the U.N Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen around the corner, here’s what some public officials had to say about energy and environment issues.
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