These charts accompany a column from Dan Weiss, Nick Kong, Sam Schiller, and Alexandra Kougentakis entitled, "The Clean Coal Smoke Screen." The article examines the discrepancy between the clean coal rhetoric of utility companies, and their paltry investment in clean coal technology.
Chart 1: CCS Projects of ACCCE Members
Name of Project
ACCCE members
Location
Est. Total Project Cost (millions)
Private Funding (millions)
DOE Funding (millions)
Notes
Plains CO2 Reduction Project
ACCCE, Ameren Corporation, Basin Electric Power Cooperative
North Dakota (Amerada Hess oil field in western North Dakota) , South Dakota, Alberta Canada
$161.6
$78.7
$82.9
Big Sky Regional Carbon Sequestration Parnership
CONSOL Energy Inc.
Library, Pennsylvania
$13.3
$4.3
$9.0
Dakota Gasification Project
Basin Electric Power Coop
North Dakota & Weyburn Saskatchewan
$3.2
$2.2
$1.0
Antelope Valley Station
Basin Electric Power Coop
North Dakota & Weyburn Saskatchewan
$300.0
Cost is for FY2011; as of November 2008, federal loan application is still pending.
Plant Daniel- Coal Seam
Southern Company
Escatawpa, Mississippi
$5.0
$0.3
$4.8
Listed funding shares are based on average reported levels.
Phase III Early and Anthropogenic C02 Injection Field Tests
Southern Company
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
$93.7
$28.7
$64.9
Projected to begin in FY ’09
Edmonds Port Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle
Duke Energy Corporation
Edwardsport, Indiana
$2,350.0
$1,890.0
$460.0
DOE funding is through local, state and federal tax incentives
Cincinnati Arch Geologic Test
Duke Energy Corporation
Rabbit Hash, Kentucky
$23.7
$6.3
$17.5
Mountineer Plant
American Electric Power
New Haven, West Virginia
$275.0
$225.0
$50.0
Total project cost is based on average reported levels; $225 to $300 million will be spent for additional equipment for the test.
RE Berger Plant
First Energy
Shadyside, Ohio
$18.1
$3.7
$14.3
Mississippi Power IGCC Plant
Mississippi Power (Southern Company Subsidiary)
Kemper, Mississippi
$2,200.0
$1,100.0
$1,100.0
Other private funding from Kellog, Brown, and Root. Applications for over half of government funding still pending; money spent beginning 2009.
Central Appalachian Coal Seam
CONSOL Energy
Fayette, McDowell, Raleigh and Wyoming Counties in West Virginia
$2.7
$0.5
$2.2
Non-DOE spending is provided by total of 18 industrial partners.
Gulf Coast Stacked Storage Project
Southern Company
Cranfield Oil Field, Natchez, Mississippi
$7.8
$3.2
$4.6
Non-DOE spending is provided by 15 industrial partners and the University of Texas.
Black Warrior Basin Coal Seam Project
Southern Company
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
$2.4
$0.5
$1.9
Non-DOE spending is provided by total of 5 industrial partners.
Consortium for Clean Coal Utilization
Arch Coal, Ameren, Peabody Energy
Washington University, Missouri
$12.0
$12.0
Announced on December 2. Money paid over five years, proposals accepted starting January 2009.
Michigan Basin Geologic Test
DTE Energy
Otsego County, Michigan
$23.7
$6.3
&17.5
MRCSP Phase III Large Scale Geologic Injection Test
Duke Energy
Edwardsport, Indiana
$93.0
$32.0
$61.0
Williston Basin Demonstration
Basin Electric Power Coop
Williston Basin, North Dakota
$101.2
$64.3
$36.9
TOTAL
$5,686.6
$3,458.1
$1,928.4
Chart 2: Profits of ACCCE Member Companies (2007)
Company
2007 Profit in millions
Alabama Power
see Southern Company
ALCOA
$2,564
Allegheny Energy, Inc.
$412
Alliance Coal, LLC
$170
AMEREN Corporation
$618
American Electric Power
$1,089
Arch Coal, Inc.
$175
Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation
$463
Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc.
$21
Basin Electric Power Cooperative
$71
Berwind Natural Resources Corporation
BHP Billiton
$13,700
BNSF Railway
$1,829
Buckeye Industrial Mining Co.
-$205
Buckeye Power, Inc.
Bucyrus International, Inc.
$94
Caterpillar Incorporated
$3,541
CONSOL Energy Inc.
$268
Consumers Energy
$215
CSX Corp.
$1,336
Drummond Company, Incorporated
DTE Energy (Detroit Edison)
$971
Duke Energy Corporation
$1,500
E.ON U.S.
$7,724
Express Marine, Incorporated
First Energy Corporation
$1,309
Foundation Coal Corp.
$33
Freightcar America, Inc.
$27
General Electric Capital Corporation
$9,815
Jennmar Corporation
Joy Global Mining
$280
Luminant
Midwest Generation
$1,098
Mirant Corporation
$1,995
Murray Energy Corporation
Natural Resource Partners L.P.
$103
Norfolk Southern Co.
$1,464
OG&E Energy Corp.
$244
Oglethorpe Power Corporation
$19
Ohio Coal Association
Peabody Energy Corp.
$264
Progress Energy, Incorporated
$504
Seminole Electric Cooperative
$11
SEP Corporation (Sunflower Electric)
$16
Southern Company
$1,734
Tri-state Generation & Transmission Assn. Inc.
$103
Union Pacific Railroad
$1,855
Western Farmers Electric Cooperative
$20
Western Fuels Association
-$1
Total
$57,448
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