GoghGoner » Thu 25 Jun 2015, 12:12:39
One plant never got off the ground in Indiana and the other is producing very little energy so far. The other plant in the USA is down in Mississippi and is just getting running after major budget overages.
Are large-scale coal gasification projects worth all the expense?
“If somebody makes a breakthrough technology it may be worthwhile, but so far it hasn’t made much financial sense,” said Dan Kish, senior vice president of policy at the Institute for Energy Research, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that advocates for free-market solutions to energy issues.
“Coal gasification is not new. It’s been around at least 30 years,” said Alison Kerester, executive director at the Gasification Technologies Council, which advocates for the industry. “What’s new with Duke and Kemper is the scale … Anytime you’re going to scale up like that, you inevitably are going to have issues that come up during construction and initial op
New report shows Plant Daniel provides little economic value to Mississippi
Today the Mississippi PSC held a special meeting and unanimously approved a new order in Docket No. 2018-AD-145, governing Mississippi Power Company s Reserve Margin Plan. Recognizing that Mississippi Power is generating far more power than is needed by consumers and that rate-payers are paying for the extra costs the Commission ordered Mississippi Power to present a plan for reducing its electricity-generating capacity by 950 MW by 2027.
The order coincided with a new publicly released report by Bates White, a private consulting firm hired by the Mississippi Public Utilities Staff. The report shows that Plant Victor J. Daniel, a 1,004 MW coal plant in Jackson County, is no longer economic for Mississippi Power customers, costing much more to run and maintain than the energy is worth. Sierra Club has long called attention to Plant Daniel as an uneconomic source of electricity and major source of dirty a
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