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Basin Electric, Powerspan team for carbon capture demo
MEDIA ADVISORY: Basin Electric, Powerspan team up to bring first large-scale carbon capture demonstration project to ND
Basin Electric Power Cooperative - June 16, 2008
WHAT: Powerspan CEO Frank Alix and Basin Electric CEO jointly announce the completion of a feasibility study for a carbon capture technology to be demonstrated at Basin Electric’s Antelope Valley Station – the first commercial-scale application of its kind in the United States – and discuss the importance of this technology for the future of coal use in North Dakota.
WHEN: 11 a.m. CT
WHERE: Basin Electric Headquarters lobby
WHO:
- Frank Alix, Powerspan
- Ron Harper, Basin Electric Power Cooperative
- Jack Dalrymple, North Dakota Lieutenant Governor
- Dennis Hill, North Dakota Association of Rural Electric Cooperatives
- Sandi Tabor, Lignite Energy Council (Tentative)
Earlier this year, Basin Electric and Powerspan announced a partnership to commercially demonstrate carbon dioxide (CO2) capture technology for conventional coal-based power plants. Construction of the CO2 capture system is anticipated to move forward late next year, with operation commencing in 2012.
The demonstration project would capture about one million tons of CO2 from a portion of the exhaust from Unit 1 at AVS, making this project among the largest in the world. As planned, the Powerspan technology would remove CO2 from the equivalent of a 120-megawatt slipstream. The captured carbon dioxide would then be fed into an existing CO2 compression and pipeline system owned by Basin Electric’s wholly owned subsidiary, Dakota Gasification Company (Dakota Gas), which has been in operation since 2000.
About Basin Electric Power Cooperative
Basin Electric is a consumer-owned, regional cooperative headquartered in Bismarck. It generates and transmits electricity to 126 member rural electric systems in nine states: Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. These member systems distribute electricity to about 2.6 million consumers.
Basin Electric’s generating resources include: two coal-based power plants in North Dakota – the Antelope Valley Station, Beulah, and the Leland Olds Station, Stanton; a coal-based power plant in Wyoming – the Laramie River Station, Wheatland; three peaking stations – the Spirit Mound Station, Vermillion, S.D.; the Groton Generation Station 1, Groton, S.D., and the Wisdom Unit 2 Station, Spencer, Iowa; nine combustion-turbine generators (natural gas) in the Gillette, Wyo., area; four wind turbines – two near Minot, N.D., and two near Chamberlain, S.D.; the energy produced from four baseload waste-heat stations owned and operated by Ormat Technologies Inc. along the Northern Border Pipeline, and the output of three wind farms owned and operated by FPL Energy, Juno Beach, Fla. The wind farms are located near Wilton and Edgeley/Kulm, N.D.; the other is near Highmore, S.D. For more information, go to www.basinelectric.com.
About Powerspan
Powerspan Corp., a clean-energy technology company based in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is engaged in the development and commercialization of proprietary multi-pollutant control technology for the electric power industry. The Company’s patented Electro-Catalytic Oxidation, or ECO® multi-pollutant control process provides high removal of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), mercury, and fine particulate matter from coal-based power plants. Visit www.powerspan.com for more information.
Headquarters
1717 East Interstate Avenue
Bismarck, ND 58503-0564 USA
Phone: 701.223.0441
