Not exact matches
NRG now promises to invest $ 1.6 billion at the Tonawanda site by 2013 to install a
new gasification plant that will burn low - sulfur
coal and reduce harmful emissions.
• Two
new nuclear
plants, called Vogtle 3 & 4, in Georgia (47 % ownership) • A
new - technology
coal gasification generation facility called Trig in Mississippi
Third,
new technologies, such as underground
coal gasification and especially carbon capture and storage, can — if given substantial financial support — reduce emissions substantially from
coal use in power
plants and industrial facilities.
The American Lung Association does not support the construction of
new advanced
coal - based generating facilities, including carbon capture and sequestration and integrated
gasification combined cycle
plants.
But there's a
new coal - based power generation technology, Integrated
Gasification Combined Cycle, or IGCC, which allows CCS systems in
new plants to more efficiently capture and store CO2 because the CO2 can be removed before combustion.
The levelized cost of
new coal plants already exceeds that of
new NGCC
plants, and «today's CCS technologies would add around 80 % to the cost of electricity for a
new pulverized
coal (PC)
plant, and around 35 % to the cost of electricity for a
new advanced
gasification - based (IGCC)
plant,» according to the EPA (77 FR 22415).
The current growth of
coal as a
gasification feedstock is largely as a result of
new Chinese
coal - to - chemicals
plants.