http://www.compasscoal.com/blog Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:30:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Washington, DC — An innovative clean coal technology project in Texas will supply electricity to the largest municipally owned utility in the United States under a recently signed Power Purchase Agreement, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today ( ... http://www.compasscoal.com/blog/texas-utility-to-purchase-electricity-from-innovative-doe-supported-clean-coal-project.html The U.S. Department of Energy is moving forward with plans to provide $450 million in funding for an advanced coal-fired power project in Texas. The proposed Texas Clean Energy Project is a 400-MW integrated gasification combined-cycle facility to be built 15 miles west of Odessa, Texas, being pursued by developer Summit ... http://www.compasscoal.com/blog/doe-proceeding-with-450-million-in-funding-for-texas-icgg-plant.html Duke Energy Corp. subsidiary Duke Energy Indiana Inc. has informed Indiana officials that it could take more than three years and $380 million to equip the Edwardsport IGCC power plant, now under construction, with carbon capture equipment. The $380 million does not include the cost for carbon storage, Duke said ... http://www.compasscoal.com/blog/duke-energy-reports-cost-of-edwardsport-igcc-plant.html The U.S. Department of Energy plans to write an environmental impact statement related to the FutureGen 2.0 project, which would involve repowering an oil-fired unit at Ameren Corp.'s Meredosia power plant with coal-burning technology. DOE said in a May 23 Federal Register notice that it would put $1 billion in federal ... http://www.compasscoal.com/blog/doe-outlines-plans-for-futuregen-20-project.html The Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute, based in Australia, just released their report on The Global Status of CCS in 2010. This report goes through different opportunities and challenges of CCS activities in several different countries, and makes recommendation on how countries can move from research ... http://www.compasscoal.com/blog/america-leads-ccs-projects-in-2010.html The FutureGen Alliance announced on February 28 that it has selected Morgan County, Illinois to sequester carbon dioxide emissions that would come from a coal-fired power plant 32 miles from the site. The long-stalled $1.3 billion project, which includes CO2 storage, a visitor center, research and training facilities, is backed by ... http://www.compasscoal.com/blog/futuregen-co2-storage-site-announced.html FreightCar America Inc. will produce 3,000 rail cars at its Roanoke manufacturing plant under a contract with Norfolk Southern Railway Co., putting more than 200 people to work at the East End Shops downtown. Production will begin this May on the first 1,500 high-capacity coal cars under a $100 million contract ... http://www.compasscoal.com/blog/new-rail-cars-for-coal-to-be-built.html The U.S. Department of Energy will commit $1 billion to a scaled-down FutureGen project that will not feature a new integrated gasification combined-cycle plant in Mattoon, Ill., but will instead repower an Ameren Corp. coal unit in Meredosia, Ill., with new technology. But the project partners, working with the state of ... http://www.compasscoal.com/blog/doe-committs-10-billion-to-revised-future-gen-minus-igcc.html