The delegation is visiting a power plant and a waste reclamation area. The visit of the delegates is being coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy. The delegation will first tour the Morgantown Energy Power Plant. The power plant uses an advanced combustion technology that allows it to produce electricity using old coal mine wastes. We have a Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustor boiler that allows us to burn the low Btu materials like the 'gob piles' made by the mines.
Limestone is injected into the boiler to control sulfur emissions.
Over the last three years droughts have diminished Brazil's hydroelectric generation. Brazil's electric system is hard-pressed to meet burgeoning power demands throughout the country. This has led to frequent interruptions in electricity service to all sectors of the economy. Brazil's continued economic growth is entirely dependent on a stable and affordable supply of electric power, which today stands at approximately 60,000 MWe of capacity. In Brazil's PLAN 2015, between 130,000 MWe and 175,000 MWe of capacity must be added by 2015.