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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

has been chosen to provide the coal gasification technology for the Taylorville Energy Center (TEC), a 730-megawatt (gross) advanced coal generating plant being developed near Taylorville, Ill. TEC will be one of the first commercial-scale, coal gasification plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) capability in the US. .

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Coal Energy Illinois CO2 186

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MAY 10, 2010

Researchers at Penn State University have shown that certain ionic liquids can be used to fragment, disperse, and partially dissolve coal to such an extent that good contact can be made with catalyst particles by simply mixing these particles with the ionic liquid/coal dispersion for improved efficiency of liquefaction. Painter et al.

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Coal Illinois 2010 Fuel 186

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

Trailblazer will be the first new-build carbon capturing coal plant in Texas to receive an air quality permit. The Trailblazer Energy Center would also be the first large-scale coal project in Texas to use dry cooling. Tenaska is applying proven pre- and post-combustion technologies on a commercial scale in two advanced coal projects.

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Coal Texas Grant Carbon 199

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

project development with a new cooperative agreement between the FutureGen Industrial Alliance and DOE for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Illinois. is an important step in making economic, commercial scale CCS a reality. We believe FutureGen 2.0 — US Energy Secretary Steven Chu. The completion of the FutureGen 2.0

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Coal Illinois Exhaust Carbon 252

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AUGUST 20, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 8 research projects for funding that will focus on gasification of coal/biomass to produce synthetic gas (syngas) as a pathway to producing power, hydrogen, fuel or chemicals. will blend coal and biomass to develop a feedstock for co-gasification. Clean Coal Briquette Inc.

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Coal Hydrogen Fuel Powered 218

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

intends to join the FutureGen Alliance, a public-private partnership established to build a first-of-its-kind coal-fired, near-zero emissions power plant in Mattoon, Illinois. Caterpillar Inc.

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Coal Illinois United States Gas-Electric 210

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Oxford Resource Partners, LP, a low-cost producer of high-value steam coal in Northern Appalachia and the Illinois Basin, and Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. Oxford markets its coal primarily to large electric utilities with coal-fired, base-load scrubbed power plants under long-term coal sales contracts.

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Ohio Coal Columbus Illinois 210

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

As part of this new initiative, the Department of Energy will partner with the FutureGen Industrial Alliance to select an Illinois host community for the carbon storage site as well as a geologic sequestration research complex and a craft labor training center. as part of an integrated strategy to repower America’s coal industry.

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Illinois Energy Mercury CO2 186

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

The selected projects focus on advancing the development of a suite of post-combustion CO 2 capture and supersonic compression systems for new and existing coal-based electric generating plants, specifically: (1) supersonic compression systems; (2) small pilot-scale (from 0.5 FuelCell Energy Inc. Source: FuelCell Energy. Click to enlarge.

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Fuel Coal CO2 Exhaust 150

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Exelon Corporation intends to join the FutureGen Alliance, a non-profit organization developing an advanced low-emissions coal demonstration facility to be located in Mattoon, Ill. million customers in Illinois (ComEd) and Pennsylvania (PECO), and gas to 485,000 customers in the Philadelphia area (PECO). Earlier post.).

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Pennsylvania Illinois Philadelphia Coal 170

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DECEMBER 8, 2017

Clean Air Choice actions taken by consumers and by commercial and government fleets to decrease vehicle emissions are vitally important to addressing these public-health issues and improving the quality of life in our communities. Coal still contributes significantly to the generation mix.)

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Chicago Clean Cleaning 2017 150

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APRIL 22, 2011

Chemists at the University of Illinois report the development of a nickel-based homogeneous catalyst that could more effectively support the production of fuels and chemical feedstocks from biomass as well as improved liquefaction of coal. A paper on their work is published in the current issue of Science.

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Fuel Production Hydrogen Coal 218

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AUGUST 25, 2009

Coal supplies nearly 50% of domestic electricity. In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. The projects’ total value is approximately $35.8 PEM), Cambridge, Mass.

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CO2 Coal Austin Store 225

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MAY 11, 2009

The conditioned syngas will be converted by the Rentech Process in a commercial scale reactor to finished, ultra-clean products such as synthetic diesel and naphtha using upgrading technologies under an alliance between Rentech and UOP, a Honeywell Company. This process is now known as the SilvaGas process. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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California Power Powered Building 170

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

will develop a commercially viable process for the production of bio-butanol, an advanced biofuel, from seaweed (macroalgae). Scaling and Commercialization of Algae Harvesting Technologies. Energy Efficient Capture of CO 2 from Coal Flue Gas. DuPont and Bio Architecture Lab, Inc. DOE grant: $9,000,000). DOE grant: $5,992,697).

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Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (TX). This effort will build on Austin Energy’s existing Smart Grid programs by creating a microgrid that will initially link 1,000 residential smart meters, 75 commercial meters, and plug-in electric vehicle charging sites. Beacon Power 20MW Flywheel Frequency Regulation Plant.

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Energy Storage Grid Energy Wind 270

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APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. Sources: In 2012–electricity generators and large industrial sources.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate 244