Government-Industry cooperative to build zero-emissions power plant.
FutureGen, a power plant of the future that promises to bring power to 250,000 residents with near zero emissions is part of a Government and Industry initiated cooperative well on its way to becoming a reality.
Part of the Bush administration's effort through the Department of Energy and the FutureGen Industrial Alliance (FGIA), composed of several energy companies (American Electric Power, BHP Billiton, CONSOL, Foundation Coal, China Huaneng Group, Kennecott Energy, Peabody Energy and Southern Energy), the mission of the cooperative is to develop a generating station using upcoming technologies to sequester carbon monoxide deep in underground geological formations with near zero emissions to the atmosphere.
Conceived in 2002, the $1-billion project has been moving forward with a site selection process. There are at this point 12 contenders, based near coal fields in the Midwest and West (see separate inset story)....

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