The DOE announced the names of the projects selected to receive funding for carbon capture and sequestration projects. The funding is from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. ConocoPhillips received approximately $3,000,000 for its project to capture and sequester CO2. Leucadia Energy received funding for two projects: the Lake Charles Cogeneration project received approximately $540,000 and the Mississippi Gasification received approximately $840,000.

The World CTL 2010 Conference will be in Bejing, China. The conference will be April 13 – 16, 2010 at the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel in the Shangdong District. Attendees can visit three CTL plants in China. The plant visits include the Yitai Indirect CTL Plant, the Jiutai Coal-to-Chemicals Plant and the Shenhua Direct CTL Plant.

EPCOR created Capital Power as a new IPO for the purpose of selling its power assets. As a stand alone company, Capital Power will have better access to capital and be in a better position to manage and develop power assets.

The DOE will prepare an Environmental Impact Study (EIS) for the Indiana Gasification project. The DOE is a lead federal agency for the National Environmental Policy Act, or NEPA, review of the project and the lead agency in the preparation of the Environmental Impact Study (EIS).

When opponents of coal and petcoke gasification write a list of the reasons that a coal/petcoke gasification project should stopped, there are two false statements that are commonly cited. The first is that its experimental and the second is that its more expensive.

Hydrogen Power selected by DOE to receive $308 million funding from the Clean Coal Power Initiative. This is part of the third round of the Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI). The initiative was made possible by President Bush when he signed the 2005 Energy Act and is designed to increase investment in low-emission coal technology by demonstrating advanced coal-based, power generation technologies.