Dec 10 2009
According to President of Alstom Power, the U.S. Department of Energy’s $334 million award to expand a carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at American Electric Power’s (AEP’s) Mountaineer power plant sends a timely and important signal about the best way to commercialize technologies that enable CO2 emitted from fossil-fired power plants to be safely captured and stored.
Alstom Power President Philippe Joubert said, “We congratulate our partners at AEP on this award. It is particularly appropriate that the award be made days before the start of the Copenhagen Summit since it reinforces the central role that technology can play in addressing carbon dioxide emissions and the progress that can be made when government and private industry partner to finance such technologies.”
On December 4th, DOE Secretary Steven Chu announced that an award would be made to a project team led by AEP to help fund the construction of a new large scale capture facility that can capture 1.5 million metric tons per year of CO2 from the Mountaineer Power Plant near New Haven, WV. The new project will therefore have 15 times the capture capacity of the already existing facility at Mountaineer, which started operations earlier this Fall. In both cases, Alstom is the technology provider and supplier of the patented chilled ammonia carbon-capture technology used, and the captured CO2 will be stored in underground saline formations located near the plant.
Source: http://www.alstom.com/home/