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Texas Plant Receives Federal Dollars
U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu has announced that a project with NRG Energy has been selected to receive up to 154-million dollars, including funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Located in Thompsons, Texas, the post-combustion capture and sequestration project will demonstrate advanced technology to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide. It will also assist with enhanced oil recovery efforts from a nearby oil field.NRG will construct a 60 megawatt carbon capture demonstration facility. The six year project will demonstrate an innovative integration of several important advances in carbon capture and sequestration technologies. The project will show that post-combustion carbon capture applied to existing plants can be done economically, especially when the plant has the opportunity to sequester carbon dioxide in nearby oilfields.
The NRG Energy project was selected under the third round of the Clean Coal Power Initiative, a cost-shared collaboration between the federal government and private industry to demonstrate low-emission carbon capture and storage technologies in advanced coal-based, power generation.
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