The DOE through Secretary Chu’s leadership has streamlined the evaluation and approval process for direct loans and loan guarantees for energy projects such as coal gasification plants. Department of Energy Secretary Chu has made changes to the project application review process that are designed to shorten the time that is necessary to get loan guarantees [...]

Texas Representative Phil King introduced a bill in the Texas legislature that will provide franchise tax credit of up to $100 million for a coal gasification plant that meets certain requirements. It’s common for states to provide tax credits or abatements to attract large, industrial investments that will benefit the local economy. The construction of [...]

Denbury Resources is bullish on tertiary recovery operations from mature oil fields and is building a CO2 pipeline from Louisiana to Texas. Denbury Resources Inc. is going to build a new CO2 pipeline from Donaldsonville, LA to Hastings Field named the Green Pipeline. The Hasting Field is the site of a mature oil field between [...]

The value of the U.S. movie industry is $10 billion which roughly equates to only two coal-to-liquid plants. During the Oscar’s I learned that the movie industry is a $10 billion industry. $10 billion? Yes, $10 billion. The revenue potential for all the wealthy producers, the creative directors, the imaginative writers, the costume persons, the [...]

Medicine Bow Fuel and Power LLC (MBFP) is a subsidiary of DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC and is planning to build a Coal-To-Liquid gasification plant in Medicine Bow, Wyoming. DKRW Energy LLC is the parent company. MBFP has received its industrial siting permit from the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality. The plant is expected to be [...]

The DOE has developed a CO2 map that shows the potential CO2 sequestration geological formations. Most of the electric power in the United States is produced with coal fired power plants. In fact, more than half of the total power for the U.S. is estimated to be generated by coal fired power plants. The CO2 [...]

On February 10, 2009, the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality issued the final air permit for the Power County Advanced Energy Center to Southeast Idaho Energy LLC (SEI). SEI is a wholly owned subsidiary of Refined Energy Holdings LLC. SEI first submitted an application for a permit in July 2007 and then submitted a revised [...]

The Lackawanna Clean Energy plant will be built on the existing site of a shutdown steel mill in Lackawanna, New York. The Lackawanna Clean Energy plant is sited on a Superfund site that was a steel mill for over 80 years. The existing steel mill site is in deplorable condition. The Lackawanna Clean Energy project [...]

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C-Change Investments and Texas Syngas (NC12) plan to construct a gasification plant in Louisiana. C-Change Investments LLC is investing in NC12 Inc. which was formerly Texas Syngas in Houston, Texas. The company recently purchased a 120,000 sq. ft. facility in Fall River, MA and is relocating to the new facility in Massachusetts. C-Change is an [...]