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Industrial Carbon Capture and 

Storage

Clean Coal Power Initiative

Power Plant Improvement 

Initiative

Clean Coal Technology 

Development Program

FutureGen

The current project portfolio contains a variety of technologies that incorporate advanced, 

clean, efficient coal-based power systems. Several of the projects include power systems 

integrated with carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, while one existing power plant 

will be retrofitted with CCS technology. Two of these projects will also produce high-value 

chemicals (poly-generation). These projects will demonstrate diversity in technology for both 

the power generation and carbon capture systems. 

The power system portions of these demonstrations include gasification technology from 

TrigTM (Southern Company), Siemens (Summit Texas Clean Energy), and Mitsubishi Heavy 

Industries (Hydrogen Energy California). The carbon capture systems will include Linde’s 

Rectisol System (Summit Texas Clean Energy and Hydrogen Energy California) and Fluor’s 

Econamine FG PlusSM (NRG Energy). The CO2 captured in three of the projects (Summit 

Texas Clean Energy, Hydrogen Energy California, and NRG Energy) will be stored through 

use in enhanced oil recovery.

The Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI) program was initiated in 2002 to address an 

array of domestic and global energy issues through a series of on-going demonstrations. 

The mission of the CCPI is to enable and accelerate the deployment of advanced 

technologies to ensure clean, reliable, and affordable electricity for the United States. The 

CCPI is a cost-shared partnership between the government and industry to develop and 

demonstrate advanced coal-based power generation technologies at the commercial scale. 

CCPI demonstrations address the reliability and affordability of the nation's electricity 

supply, particularly from its coal-based generation. CCPI demonstrations will meet technical 

requirements set forth in the Energy Policy Act of 2005. 

The status of the CCPI projects is summarized as follows:

Complete: 4

Active: 4

Withdrawn: 7 

Discontinued: 2

Negotiations Ceased: 1

Negotiations: 0

Total Projects: 18

A list of all projects selected in the program to date is provided below with a link to the 

project's information page. If a project was not completed and/or no documents are 

available, no information page is associated with the project.

ROUND 3

American Electric Power (AEP) Project (Withdrawn)

Antelope Valley Station Post-Combustion CO2 Project (Withdrawn)

Hydrogen Energy California (HECA) Project (Active)

NRG Energy Project (Active)

Southern Company Carbon Capture and Sequestration Demonstration (Withdrawn)

Summit Texas Clean Energy Project (Active)

ROUND 2

Airborne ProcessTM Commercial Scale Demonstration Program (Withdrawn)

Demonstration of a Coal-Based Transport Gasifier (Active)

CLEAN COAL POWER INITIATIVE (CCPI)

Research Coal Major Demonstrations

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Mercury Species and Multi-Pollutant Control Project (Complete)

Mesaba Energy Project (Discontinued)

ROUND 1

Advanced Multi-product Coal Utilization Byproduct Processing Plant (Withdrawn)

Demonstration of Integrated Optimization Software at the Baldwin Energy 

Complex (Complete)

Gilberton Coal-to-Clean Fuels and Power Co-production Project (Negotiations ceased)

Increasing Power Plant Efficiency: Lignite Fuel Enhancement (Complete)

TOXECON Retrofit for Mercury and Multi-pollutant Control on Three 90-MW Coal-Fired 

Boilers (Complete)

Western Greenbrier Co-production Demonstration Project (Discontinued)

Commercial Demonstration of the Airborne Process (Withdrawn) [PDF-580KB]

Integration of Advanced Emissions Controls to Produce Next-Generation Circulating Fluid 

Bed Coal Generating Unit (Withdrawn) [PDF-304KB]

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