Coal
Up one levelFAQ: IGCC and New Coal Technologies
April 2006 - Billions of dollars in federal subsidies have been and continue to be sunk into developing "clean coal" alternatives to traditional pulverized coal-burning power plants. The clean-coal technology of the moment is integrated gasification combined cycle, or IGCC. While IGCC has great potential, it must clear a number of technical and economic hurdles.
FAQ: Proposed Kalama Coal Plant
April 2006 - Energy Northwest wants to build a 600-megawatt electricity-generating plant on an 80-acre industrial site in Kalama, on the Columbia River just south of Longview, WA. The proposed plant – called the Pacific Mountain Energy Center -- is slated to start operating in 2012.