Company/Alliance: Tenaska Inc.
Location: Sweetwater, Texas, USA
Feedstock: Coal
Size: 600 MW net. (765 MW gross)
Capture Technology: Super critial pulverized coal technology
CO2 Fate: EOR (Permian oil fields)
Timing: Permits filed (2008), Final decision to proceed (2009), Construction (2009), Commercial operation (2014)
Motivation/Economics: Total cost of project is projected to $3-billion (US). Texas Legislature passed House Bill 3732, Advanced Clean energy Project legislation in May 2007. Tenaska hopes to obtain state incentives and potential federal incentives for its carbon capture and sequestration at electric generating facilities.
Comments: Tenaska obtained the final air permit from the Illinois Environmetal Protection Agency. The Permian basin has many mature oil fields which would benefit from EOR. Tenaska hopes to supply enough CO2 to produce an additional 1 billion barrels of oil to the Texas economy. This project would also provide employment for the area. Tenaska is currently evaluating the site at Sweetwater, Texas, if it will be build the Trailblazer Center.
Project Link: Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Center Homepage
Other Sources and Press Release:
Trailblazer Fact-Sheet [PDF] (May 2009)
Tenaska moves forward after EPA air permit (January 2009)
Clean Coal Portfolio standard (January 2009)
Tenaska CCS proposal (April 2008)
Tenaska project proposal press release (Feb 2008)
Proposed Tenaska Fact Sheet [PDF] (Feb 2008)
Earthtimes Press release (Feb 2008)
Date Modified September 16, 2009
