The Minnkota Power Cooperative’s Milton R. Young station got a $6.0 MM grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to design a carbon capture model that would reduce the plant’s carbon emissions by 90 per cent. The project is one of seven funded by the Energy Department’s new $44.0 MM Design and Testing of Carbon Capture Technologies program.
The 40-year-old Minnkota station has two coal-powered units that together produce roughly 700,000 kilowatts of energy. Its larger unit is slated to get retrofitted with carbon capture technology. But the project will take more than a year to design, and at the end of that period, Minnkota Power might decide that the project isn’t economically feasible. It’s a very real possibility. The woe-begotten Kemper Power plant, the nation’s first “clean coal” carbon capture facility, stopped work on clean coal last summer and rep
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