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14 November 2006 -- American Municipal Power-Ohio, Inc. (AMP-Ohio) today announced that it intends to pursue the utilization of Powerspan emissions control technology on the proposed American Municipal Power Generating Station (AMPGS) Project. The project was announced last October and is under development near the Ohio River in southern Meigs County, Ohio.
In addition, AMP-Ohio announced that it will be a partner in a pilot program to test the Powerspan carbon dioxide (CO2) capture process with Powerspan and FirstEnergy Corp. of Akron, Ohio, at FirstEnergy's R.E. Burger Plant.
In May 2006, AMP-Ohio filed an air permit-to-install application with the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency for the proposed 1,000 MW facility, which will use pulverized coal and incorporate the best of the latest generation of available and proven emissions control technology to ensure that it meets or exceeds all environmental regulations and emissions limitation requirements.
Developed and patented by Powerspan Corp. the multi-pollutant control technology, called Electro-Catalytic Oxidation (ECO), achieves outlet emissions levels at or below those of best available control technologies and produces a valuable fertilizer co-product instead of synthetic gypsum produced from traditional limestone scrubbing technologies. In addition, the ECO system will be designed with features that allow for future expansion to make the plant CO2 capture ready, preparing the plant for the possibility of future CO2 emission limits.
"We believe this decision strikes the appropriate balance between providing the most advanced clean coal technology commercially available at this scale, while avoiding excessive cost or technology risks for our members," said AMP-Ohio President and CEO Marc Gerken. "Based on the CO2 pilot program, the ECO system also is positioned to prepare the plant to operate economically in a carbon-constrained world by providing the potential to cost-effectively add CO2 emission controls in the future."
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