SCE to conduct feasibility study on advanced coal facility
Southern California Edison (SCE) received approval to conduct a feasibility study of a clean hydrogen power generation facility combining several advanced coal technologies at full commercial scale.
The decision to move forward with the two-year, approximately $50 million assessment of the clean hydrogen power generation plant follows approval by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
The technology under consideration would convert the coal through a gasification process into predominantly hydrogen and CO2, capturing as much as 90 percent of the CO2 in the coal. The hydrogen would be used as the fuel source for a combined cycle power plant while the CO2 would be removed prior to combustion and sequestered underground into a deep saline formation or a depleted oil formation to create enhanced oil recovery.
The approval marks the second endorsement in the past six months of SCE's proposed feasibility study. The DOE on Oct. 9, 2007, announced a grant of more than $65 million to SCE and other participants in the Southwest Regional Partnership for Carbon Sequestration to conduct one of the nation's first large-scale carbon sequestration studies. The partnership plans to inject several million tons of CO2 into the Jurassic-age Entrada Sandstone Formation in southwestern United States as one of the technology studies in SCE's Clean Hydrogen Power Generation program.
SCE proposed the study of a clean hydrogen power generation facility in conjunction with the Department of Energy and the Southwest Partnership and the CPUC approved $4.6 million for the first stages of the project.
SCE will make the study results available to all interested parties.
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