9 March 2010-- NRG Energy Inc. will receive up to $154 million from the Department of Energy and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to build a post-combustion carbon capture demonstration unit at the company's 3,564 MW WA Parish coal-fired power plant in Texas.
The proposed project was submitted under the Clean Coal Power initiative program, which is designed to accelerate the readiness of advanced coal technologies for commercial deployment.
The demonstration is expected to begin operations in 2013. It will use Fluor Corp.'s Econamine FG Plussm technology to process the equivalent of 60 MW of flue gas from the plant and capture 90 percent of incoming carbon dioxide (CO2). Once it is captured, the CO2 will be compressed and used in enhanced oilfield recovery operations.
