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Global CCS Institute Funds Tenaska Projects
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 |
Two Tenaska projects aimed at substantially reducing carbon emissions from power generating plants have received international recognition in the form of grants from the Global Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Institute, based in Australia and a fellow member of the Coal Utilization Research Council (CURC).
The two projects are:
- Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Center in West Texas, which received $7.7 million, ($8.03 million AUD). The proposed 600-megawatt (net) pulverized coal-fueled power plant will be among the first worldwide designed to capture 85 to 90 percent of the CO2 emissions and transport them via pipeline to nearby oil fields for use in enhanced oil recovery.
- A second Tenaska carbon capture project, which will receive $795,000 ($825,600 AUD) to support CO2 capture development studies for a retrofit of Entergy’s Roy S. Nelson power plant in Westlake, Louisiana.
The grant awarded to the Trailblazer Energy Center, planned near Sweetwater, TX will help fund the front-end engineering and design (FEED) work for the power plant’s carbon capture technology. The carbon capture plant at Trailblazer is among the largest proposed for a commercial scale conventional coal plant in the world today. The use of the CO2 in enhanced oil recovery in the Permian Basin is projected to add more than 10 million barrels annually to the region’s oil production. Fluor Enterprises, Trailblazer’s engineering, procurement and construction contractor and the plant’s CO2 capture technology provider, is performing the FEED study.
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