Clean-coal power plant to break ground in Texas

The Texas Clean Energy Project, a $2.5 billion coal gasification power plant,?will be the first US power plant that combines both integrated coal gasification combined cycle and carbon-capture-and-storage technologies, Tracey writes.

By Evan Tracey,?American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) / March 18, 2013

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A coal-fired power plant is seen from Lake Powell in Page, Ariz. The Texas Clean Energy Project will incorporate carbon capture and storage technology in a first-of-its-kind commercial clean coal power plant, Tracey writes.

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In a recent Op-Ed in the?New York Times, author Joe Nocera talks about ?A Real Carbon Solution? in Odessa, Tex. as?the?Summit Power Group?plans to break ground on a $2.5 billion?coal gasification?power plant. Summit has named it the?Texas Clean Energy Project?(TCEP).

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Senior Vice President for Communications, American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE)

Mr. Tracey oversees the strategy on how to communicate the importance of electricity from coal and the value of investments in clean coal technology. He has two decades of political, legislative and issue research experience and has provided strategic media analysis for a number of trade associations, foundations, Fortune 500 companies, political party committees, the national press, academic institutions, as well as hundreds of national, statewide and local political campaigns.

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TCEP is a ?NowGen? Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) facility that will incorporate carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in a?first-of-its-kind?commercial?clean coal power plant.

TCEP will be a 400MW power/poly-gen plant that will also produce urea for the U.S. fertilizer market and capture 90 percent of its carbon dioxide (CO2) ? approximately 3 million tons per year ? which will be used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in the West Texas Permian Basin.

According to Nocera, ?Part of the promise of this power plant is its use of gasified coal; because the gasification process doesn?t burn the coal, it makes for far cleaner energy than a traditional coal-fired?plant.?

?But another reason this plant ? and a handful of similar plants ? has such enormous potential is that it will capture some 90 percent of the facility?s already reduced carbon emissions. Some of those carbon?emissions will be used to make fertilizer. The rest will be sold to the oil industry,which will push it into the ground, as part of a process called?enhanced oil recovery.?

TCEP received a $450MM award in 2010 from the U.S. Department of Energy?s Clean Coal?Power Initiative. TCEP received its final air quality permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality on December 28, 2010.

The Texas Clean Energy project will be the first United States based power plant that combines both Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle and carbon capture and storage technologies.

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