Clean Coal Power in Jacksonville, FL
The Northside Generating Station in Jacksonville Florida. Equipped with new, state-of-the-art "circulating fluidized bed combustors," the power station is now one of the cleanest burning coal plants in the world. Its two advanced combustors – the largest ever installed in a power plant – each generate 300 megawatts of power, enough to light over 250,000 average households.

The plant is not only cleaner than before, it now generates two-and-a-half times more power. Using coal instead of the more expensive oil and gas the plant previously burned is expected to help keep electric rates low and stable in the Jacksonville area.

Healy Clean Coal Plant (HCCP), 10 miles outside of Denali National Park in Alaska.

Alaskan Power Plant, Healy Clean Coal Project demonstrates and deploys advanced clean coal technologies that meet strict environmental standards.

Wabash River Coal Gasification Repowering Project
The Department of Energy partnered with Destec Energy, Inc. and PSI Energy, Inc. to demonstrate the gasification process as part of compliance with the Clean Air Act and it’s 1990 Amendments.

Goals and Objectives

• Demonstrate utility repowering with two-stage, oxygen-blown IGCC system - 262 MWe
• SO₂ removal > 98% 0.1 lb/ 106 Btu) using 2.3 to 5.9% sulfur coal
• NOx removal > 90% 0.1 lb/ 106 Btu)
• Operates at 38% efficiency (9,000 Btu/kWh)

Nucla
The Colorado-Ute Electric Association project in Nucla, CO (now operated by Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc., of Denver) was one of the early demonstrations in the Clean Coal Technology Program. From this project came significant design improvements in utility-scale atmospheric fluidized bed technology, and as a result, commercial confidence in this advanced, low-polluting combustion system picked up considerably.

The Nucla fluidized bed power plant in Colorado was operated in DOE's Clean Coal Technology Program.

Piñon Pine IGCC Power Project
Piñon Pine IGCC Power Project represents efforts in the 1990’s to clean up the environment with new coal fired technologies. The Piñon Pine Power Project, utilizes gasification based on pressurized fluidized bed technology.

Goals and Objectives

• Demonstrate an Integrated Gasification Combined-Cycle (IGCC) incorporating hot gas cleanup
• Evaluate low-Btu gas combustion turbine
• NOx and SO2 reduction > 90% (0.069 lb/ 106 Btu)
• Operating efficiency 43.7%