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Article: Video: AEP and Alstom Commission First of Its Kind Carbon Capture and Sequestration CCS Project.
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- Global Warming Focus
- Article date:
- November 16, 2009
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Federal and state government officials today joined executives from American Electric Power (NYSE:AEP) and Alstom at AEP's Mountaineer Plant to formally commission the world's first project to both capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2) from a coal-fired power plant. The officials hailed the project as a significant milestone in the effort to reduce CO2 emissions from the combustion of fossil fuels.
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The Mountaineer CCS demonstration project, which began capturing CO2 Sept. 1 and storing it Oct. 2, is designed to capture at least 100,000 metric tonnes of CO2 ...