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US Energy Secretary Steven Chu shakes hands with Italian Industry Minister Claudio Scajola
after signing a bilateral agreement to cooperate on carbon capture and sequestration.
(AP Photo/Pier Paolo)
Fluor Corporation announced today that it has been selected to begin limited engineering for Tenaska’s Trailblazer Energy Center in Sweetwater, Texas.
“We look forward to working with Tenaska on the first phase of this next-generation power plant”, said Dave Dunning, president of Fluor’s Power Group. “We believe Trailblazer will set a new standard for clean coal electricity generation globally by using advanced carbon capture technology, and we are delighted to be part of this innovation in clean energy”.
The proposed Tenaska Trailblazer Energy center, set to open in 2015, is expected to be the U.S first commercial clean-coal power plant. The plant, that will be connected to the ERCOT power grid and generate enough electricity to power 600,000 Texas homes, is designed to capture 85 to 90 percent of its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and deliver it via pipeline to the Permian Basin oil fields in West Texas where it will be used in enhanced oil recovery and geological storage.
In 2007 the Texas Legislature enacted legislation which puts incentives in place for advanced clean coal energy projects including the development of clean-coal electricity projects and projects that take CO2 and use it for enhanced oil recovery and storage.
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