Company/Alliance: Summit Power Group Inc, Siemens, Fluor Corp
Location: Midland-Odessa, West Texas, USA
Feedstock: Coal
Size: 400MW Gross, 245MW Commercial output
Capture Technology: IGCC
CO2 Fate: EOR in the Permian Basin
Timing: Construction commence (2010); Operation (2014)
Motivation/Economics: The Texas Legislature this year enacted H.B. 469 to help incentivize TCEP and similar projects. TCEP and other projects with 70% or greater CO2 capture can qualify for more than $100 million in Texas tax relief, and oil produced using CO2 from TCEP and other projects enjoys additional tax advantages.
Comments: The TCE Project is proposed for one of the former FutureGen finalist sites – the 600-acre Penwell site – situated fifteen miles west of Odessa, Texas. The project will sell the estimated 3 Million tons captured annually for EOR in the surrounding Permian Basin. In addition to the CO2 the project will also produce other valuable commercial products, including urea (for fertilizer), argon gas, sulfuric acid, and even inert non-leachable slag suited to cement making, road building, and roofing materials.
Project Link: Texas Clean Energy Project
Other Sources and Press Release:
Summit Power's website
West Texas Projects could hold key to carbon emissions (June 2009)
Date Modified August 7, 2009
