One of the nation’s largest electric utilities is planning to reduce
carbon dioxide pollution at two of its coal-fired plants using a new
technology. Fred Kight reports:
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One of the nation’s largest electric utilities is planning to reduce
carbon dioxide pollution at two of its coal-fired plants using a new
technology. Fred Kight reports:
American Electric Power will install what it calls “carbon capture,”
first at a plant in West Virginia and then at one in Oklahoma. AEP
says it’s the first company to use this technology on a commercial
scale.
Carbon dioxide will be removed from smokestack emissions and injected
9,000 feet into the ground. With the possibility of federal
legislation on greenhouse gases looming, AEP says it’s the right time
for carbon capture.
AEP’s Pat Hemlepp says this kind of thing is already being done by
companies storing natural gas underground:
“What we’re going to be doing with the CO2 is storing it even deeper in
saline aquafers under high pressure… so we’re not concerned.”
For the Environment Report, I’m Fred Kight.