FutureGen “clean coal” update
If you’re interested in keeping up to date with efforts in the U.S. to design the first “clean coal” plant (carbon capture/sequestration included), here’s an Associated Press article, via the Charleston Daily Mail, that fits the bill. A list of seven states going after the high-profile FutureGen project will be reduced to a shortlist of finalists later this week. Final selection of the winning state is expected to happen next year, with the plant itself to be completed by 2011.
The Canadian Clean Power Coalition has its own goal of building a demonstration clean coal plant in Canada by 2012. For more information on the technology and various options for using it in Canada, check out this fairly thorough clean coal technology roadmap recently made available through Natural Resources Canada.
Tyler Hamilton is senior energy reporter and columnist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper. In addition to this Clean Break blog, Tyler writes a weekly column of the same name that discusses trends, happenings and innovators in the cleantech market. This blog is a personal project started in April 2005. It is not an official blog of the newspaper. Tyler can be reached at tyler@cleanbreak.ca