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Indiana Gasification SNG Plan Revives in State Legislature
The Indiana Gasification substitute synthetic natural gas project – earlier considered dead because of a failure to cut offtake deals with Vectren Corp. and Northern Indiana Public Service – may get new life under a bill pending in the Indiana state legislature. Indiana Gasification, led by a trio of investors including Leucadia National, E3 Gasification and Johnson & Associates, pulled its pending application before the Indiana Regulatory Utility Commission in December when offtake agreements couldn’t be finalized.
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UK Govt. OK’s Powerfuel IGCC Project
The U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change announced Feb. 5 that Powerfuel’s proposed 900 MW integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant at Hatfield won permission for construction. Energy and Climate Change Minister Mike O'Brien explained that the Hatfield plant, like two other plants just given approval, agreed to “have the necessary land available to retrofit a carbon capture and storage plant for future use.”
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India President Unveils Giant CTL Project
India’s President Pratibha Patil revealed Feb. 12 in a speech in Parliament that the government is about to announce awarding of approval for an 80,000 barrels/day coal-to-liquids plant. The estimated U.S. $6-8 billion project aims to cut India’s dependence upon foreign oil imports, she said.
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Southeast Idaho Energy Wins Key Permit for Gasification-Fertilizer Project
The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality last week issued a final permit allowing Southeast Idaho Energy (SIE) to build a coal/coke gasification plant that would produce fertilizers. The permit allows SIE “to produce nitrogenous fertilizers and elemental sulfur” at the Power County Advanced Energy Center.
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Gasification Incentives Survive in U.S. Economic Stimulus Bill
U.S. President Barack Obama on Feb. 17 signed a massive $790 billion economic stimulus law, with some provisions favoring gasification. The bill includes $3.4 billion for development of advanced clean coal technologies, “including slightly more than $1.5 billion to support a range of industrial carbon capture and energy efficiency improvement projects,” the National Mining Association noted in a summary. “The bill includes $1 billion to support fossil energy research projects, such as those capable of capturing and storing a high percentage of carbon dioxide emissions, one example being the proposed FutureGen [IGCC] project in Mattoon, Ill.”
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Covanta, Wheelabrator Announce New WTE Projects; Emissions Seen Vastly Improving
While gasification-based waste-to-energy (WTE) projects may be grabbing the headlines in recent months, two of the world’s biggest WTE veterans – both using mass-burn (combustion) rather than gasification – have big new plant projects to brag about. On Feb. 2, Covanta Energy announced a proposed $575 million, 70 MW WTE plant in Wales, U.K., which would supply electricity for up to 180,000 homes, while slashing the need for municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. The new Covanta plant would be on an existing railway line that will link it to rail-operated waste transfer stations across Wales.
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New Orleans Could Host Big Gasification-Based WTE Plant
New Orleans could become the site of one of the biggest gasification-based waste-to-energy (WTE) projects ever built. Sun Energy Group is in negotiations to acquire a site along the Industrial Canal for a proposed 104 MW plant that would employ the Westinghouse Plasma/Alter NRG technology. A key vote on the project is expected next month. In an exclusive interview with Gasification News, Sun Energy CEO D’Juan Hernandez told us that his company already has a letter of intent on the proposed site and is negotiating with the Port of New Orleans over terms of the acquisition.
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Lower-Cost WTE Gasification System Nears Debut
Virginia-based waste-to-energy developer Recovered Energy Resources (RER) sees new opportunities arising for its novel gasification-based technology package. In an exclusive interview with Gasification News, RER CEO Brad Schneider explained the concept, including the reasons why three Michigan counties (Montmorency-Oscoda-Alpena Solid Waste Authority) are now considering RER’s proposed municipal solid waste project. The approximately $25 million project, if built, would gasify about 160 tons of MSW per day, with a gross power output of about approximately 4.7 MW and potential to increase that to around 6 MW.
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India IGCC Plant Seen Tripped Up Over Intellectual Property
State-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd and coal-fired power producer NTPC reportedly have stumbled over a plan to build an integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plant in India. According to a report from Hindustan Times, the would-be IGCC partners are in a dispute over intellectual property rights involved in the project.
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• If CCS Excluded, Then LNG Looks Better Than IGCC on GHG
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Xtract Sells Shares in GTL Developer MEO
Xtract Energy announced Feb. 11 that it has sold shares in fellow Australian energy company MEO, developer of planned gas-to-liquids projects. Xtract said it sold 8.4 million shares, worth A$1.8 million, “to support the growth of the other investments within the company's portfolio and provide working capital.”
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• Algeria’s Khelili Still Appears Bearish on GTL
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Alt-Fuel, RFS, CO2-Tax Mandates Flop: Low-Carbon Fuel Standard Seen Better
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) hails a new study by University of California-Davis’s Institute of Transportation Studies researchers Dan Sperling and Sonia Yeh that shows alternative-fuels mandate schemes, and CO2 trading or taxing schemes, are a big flop. As CARB summarizes the study, “Sperling and Yeh show why California’s proposed LCFS [low-carbon fuel standard] should be successful where other programs have failed.” California should know, from its disastrous experience with methanol car mandates. But ironically, California regulators still haven’t owned-up yet to the economic flop of compressed natural gas, electric car or hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle mandate schemes.
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• U.S. EPA Chief Reverses Former Administrator on CO2 from Power Plants
• CCS Tests Start in Virginia Coal Seams
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