Company/Alliance: American Electric Power (AEP) together with Alstom
Location: Northeastern Station, Oologah, Oklahoma, USA
Feedstock: Coal
Size: 200 MW on 450 MW unit, 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 per year captured
Capture Technology: Post-combustion with chilled ammonia
CO2 Fate: EOR
Timing: Commercial operation (2011)
Motivation/Economics: The project is a combined ten-year effort with the US Department of Energy’s (DOE). The plant has the ability to capture 90% of the carbon dioxide.
Comments: The Office of Fossil Energy’s Carbon Sequestration program has invested more than $300 million on pre and post combustion capture technology research, development, and demonstration.
Project Link: AEP to install carbon capture on two existing power plants; company will be first to move technology to commercial scale (March 2007)
Other Sources and Press Release:
Alstom and American Electric Power sign agreement to bring CO2 capture technology to commercial scale by 2011 (March 2007)
First Utility-Scale CO2 Deployment Shows Value of Private-Public Joint Ventures (March 2007)
The Practical Way to Retrofit Carbon Sequestration to Existing Coal-Fired Power Plants-by Alstom (March 2007)
Alstom completes successful pilot plant testing of new technology for carbon capture (September 2005)
Battelle and Partners Lead Pioneering Study of Carbon Sequestration: A Key Climate Change Mitigation Technology (Spring 2003)
