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Carbon Capture and Storage:

A Technology Solution for Continued Coal Use in a Carbon Constrained World

May 22,2008

3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

562 Dirksen Senate Office Building 

 

 

 3:00 pm to 3:15 pm

Opening Remarks by CURC Co-Chair:

 

Nick Akins

Executive Vice President, Generation

American Electric Power

 

  • Importance of coal in electric power generation
  • Current utility experience with CCS
  • Challenges for utility adoption of CCS technology
 

 3:15 pm to 3:45 pm

What is the State of CCS Technology Development?

  • Reducing CO2 emissions from coal plants
  • Carbon capture technologies
  • Carbon storage techniques
  • Development status of the current technology
  • Overview of existing CCS projects worldwide and proposed in the U.S.

 

Ed Levy

Lehigh University

 3:45 pm to 4:15 pm

What are Current CCS Technology Costs?

  • New coal power plant costs
  • Projected CCS costs
  • CCS and existing plant retrofits

 

Stu Dalton

EPRI

 

 4:15 pm to 4:45 pm

CCS Technology Development Needs

  • RD&D needs to develop CCS technologies and reduce costs
  • What is needed and by when for commercial deployment?
  • Industry roadmap for CCS deployment

 

Dick Bajura

West Virginia University

 4:45 pm to 5:00 pm

Questions and Concluding Remarks

 

 

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