Developing new technologies to reduce mercury emissions requires a collaborative effort from private and commercial sectors and from Federal tax dollars generated for every American. But the payoff is cleaner, more efficient power generation.

To this effort, the Department of Energy (DOE) has promoted the Clean Coal Technologies Program and continues to investigate new technologies to achieve a goal of 90% mercury removal from coal-fired power plants. The DOE expands tax dollars by cost sharing projects with industry to field test new technologies and evaluate performance. The list below shows some of the current projects under the program:

Below are fact sheets for some of the Nation’s Clean Coal Power Initiative Projects:

• Achieving NSPS Emission Standards Through Integration of Low-NOx
  Burners with an Optimization Plan for Boiler Combustion
• Advanced Multi-Product Coal Utilization By-product Processing Plant
• Airborne Process Commercial Scale Demonstration
• Clean Coal Power Initiative - Environmental Support
• Commercial Demonstration of the Airborne Process
• Commercial Demonstration of the Manufactured Aggregate Processing Technology Utilizing Spray Dryer Ash
• Demonstration of Integrated Optimization Software at the Baldwin Energy Complex
• Demonstration of a 285MW Coal-Based Transport Gasifier
• Demonstration of a Full-scale Retrofit of the Advanced Hybrid Particulate Collector Technology
• FutureGen
• Gilberton Coal-to-Clean Fuels and Power Project
• Mercury Specie and Multi-Pollutant Control
• Mesaba Energy IGCC Project
• Regional Effort to Deploy Clean Coal Technologies
• Repayment Agreement - NeuCo Project (#41768)
• Repayment Agreement for NT42385, Mesaba Energy IGCC Project
• Repayment Agreement for NT42389, Mercury Specie and Multi-Pollutant Control
• Repayment Agreement for NT42391, Demonstration of a 285MW Coal-Based Transport Gasifier
• Toxecon Retrofit for Mercury and Multi-Pollutant Control on Three 90 MW Coal-Fired Boilers