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FutureGen 2.0
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FutureGen 2.0
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Capture Method: OxyfuelCapture Technology:Capital cost:$1.3 billionFinancial support:finsup--> Volume:1.3 million tonnes
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Facts:
Existing power plant
The FutureGen Alliance has restructured – and renamed – the original FutureGen project and now aims to refit one 200MW unit at Ameren's power plant in Meredosia, Illinois, with advanced oxy-combustion technology.
The project also intends to capture up to 1.3 million tonnes per annum of carbon dioxide – or around 90% of all CO2 emissions – and transport it by pipeline to Morgan County for storage underground in a deep saline formation.
The project partners include the US Department of Energy, State of Illinois, Ameren Energy Resources, Babcock & Wilcox and American Air Liquide. It may be one of the largest oxy-combustion projects in the world, and is planned to start up in 2015.
The project includes plans for a research and visitor complex close to the CO2 storage site. It also aims to provide performance and emissions data that will build commercial confidence in the technology.
Finance
The project has received $1 billion from the DoE’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The total cost is around $1.3 billion dollars. In 2008, the DoE had announced it would only fund the CCS element of the original IGCC project, which was then cancelled. It was restructured in 2010 to an oxyfuel combustion retrofit project.
In November 2011, utility company Ameren decided not meet the estimated $750 million cost of converting its Meredosia oil-fired power plant to coal under the FutureGen 2.0 project. However, it did promise to make the plant available to the project.
Timing
Construction of the power plant, CO2 pipeline and storage facility is expected to begin in the second half of 2012, with the plant becoming operational in 2015. The DoE is currently undergoing an environmental review and public consultation. The repowering of the Meredosia plant, the CO2 pipeline and storage facility and the training and research center should be completed by end of 2015.
Storage
The FutureGen Alliance has selected Morgan County, Illinois, as the preferred location for the FutureGen 2.0 CO2 storage site, visitor centre, research, and training facilities. The project successfully completed drilling the characterisation well at the end of 2011, with preliminary results suggesting the site would be suitable for long term storage of CO2.
Among the factors that resulted in the selection of the Morgan County site are said to be its high quality geology, and its close proximity to the Meredosia power plant, which simplifies pipeline routing and substantially reduces the project’s overall cost.
