Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Southern, Duke push US coal gasification; others quit

Reuters: Only two U.S. electric utilities are building expensive coal-gasification power plants, while dozens of similar facilities have been scrapped and some remaining projects may eliminate coal in favor of abundant, cheap natural gas. Duke Energy's 618-megawatt Edwardsport coal project in Indiana and Southern Co's 582-MW Kemper County project in Mississippi are the only "integrated gasification combined cycle", or IGCC plants, under construction out of more than three dozen proposed in the United States...

URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/12/utilities-coal-gasification-idUSL1E8H78P420120612

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