What is the status of US coal power plants with CCS?
• Commercial CCS Today: There are currently no coal power plants that capture and store their CO2 in operation or under construction in the US. • Near–term Planned Pilot CCS: There is one project under construction in West Virginia that will test CCS technologies by siphoning off about 1–2% of the exhaust from a very large existing coal power plant and then capturing and sequestering the carbon from the siphoned gas. In the medium–term several other projects plan similar slipstream tests. • Testing of Capture Technology for CCS: There is one small 1.7MW project testing CO2 capture technology for the purpose of CCS development. This project is not testing CCS however, as the captured CO2 is subsequently released to the atmosphere. • Capture without Sequestration: There are a few power plants that siphon a portion of their exhaust to capture CO2 that is sold for the food and beverage industry. This captured CO2 is not prevented from entering the atmosphere (i.e. there is no sequestration
