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Genesee Demonstration Plant - Alberta Saline Aquifer Project (ASAP)

Last modified: 2011-01-18T18:56:15+01:00

Brief description:

Genesee Demonstration Plant - Alberta Saline Aquifer Project (ASAP): Read more; Capture Method:
Post-combustion
Capture Technology:

Capital cost:
Financial support:
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--> Volume:
1 000 000 tonnes; 53.354209 -114.330892

Facts:

Country:

Canada

Project type: Capture Storage

Scale: Small

Status: Feasibility study

Financal support:
ecoENERGY Technology Initiative

Year of operation 2015

Industry: Coal Power Plant

Capture method: Post-combustion

Transport of CO2 by:

Pipeline

Storage site: Wabamun region

Type of storage:

Aquifers

Volume:

1 000 000 tonnes/CO2

Volume:

1 000 000 tonnes/CO2

Genesee Demonstration Plant involves the construction of a demonstration facility that will capture CO2 from a coal-fired power plant West of Edmonton in Alberta. The captured CO2 will be transported through collaboration with Enbridge and the Alberta Saline Aquifer Project (ASAP). The CO2 will be used for enhanced oil recovery operations or sequestered in a saline formation located within 100 km of Genesee.

It is both a IGCC project on a new 150 MW commercial-scale near-zero-emission thermal power plant with carbon capture, capture 3,300 tonnes per day or 1.2 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions a year. And EPCOR also filed an EOI for a pilot project designed to capture emissions on existing thermal power plants. The project would use an amine scrubbing process to remove CO2 emissions from the flue gas that is released into the atmosphere. This pilot would be located at EPCOR’s Genesee 1 power generation plant, and be designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by between eight and 10%.

Financing

The project got financing from the ecoENERGY Technology initiative in March 2009. http://ecoaction.gc.ca/news-nouvelles/20090326-1-eng.cfm

History

Juni 2009, The Government of Alberta announced that the EPCOR/Enbridge proposal for an integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) carbon capture power generation facility at Genesee is one of three projects selected for the negotiation of letters of intent under the province’s $2 billion program for large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects.
In May 2009, EPCOR announced its plans to create Capital Power Corporation (Capital Power) to acquire EPCOR’s power generation assets. EPCOR’s interest in the Genesee IGCC CCS project will be sold to Capital Power as part of that transaction.

More information and press release

Storage:

The Alberta Saline Aquifer Project (ASAP) is an industry initiative being led by Enbridge Inc. to identify deep saline aquifers in Alberta that could be used in a carbon sequestration pilot project. As a true collaborative effort, so far 37 companies are participating in the first phase of the project.

Enbridge will be designing the pipeline route for transporting the CO2 as well as the CO2 injection facilities. The company will also conduct pilot injections to test the characteristics of the proposed storage site to optimize the project’s operation. The CO2 will be used for enhanced oil recovery operations or sequestered in a saline formation located within 100 km of Genesee. ASAP is also responsible for measuring and monitoring the CO2 that will be stored in the saline aquifer.

ASAP members met in Calgary on April 8, 2009 to discuss the work they had completed during Phase I, and the work to come in Phase II. They identified the Wabamun region west of Edmonton as a prime location for the $30-million to $50-million Phase II pilot project. They chose the area because the EPCOR Genesee coal-fired power plant, which will likely supply the CO2 that ASAP will store, is located nearby.

http://www.albertaasap.com

Timing- Storage project

Phase 1: 2008 ($750,000(Participants $15-20k/ea. Federal & Provincial)

Identify 3 specific saline aquifer locations.
Design and cost (± 30%) a sequestration demonstration including CO2 compression and transportation.
Prepare preliminary application for saline lease/permit and approval for demonstration pilot.