Major “Clean Coal” Project in Mississippi Shuts Down
Billions over budget and three years behind schedule, the Kemper County coal-gasification project will now produce electricity using natural gas
via Major “Clean Coal” Project in Mississippi Shuts Down | Smart News | Smithsonian
Kemper County Power Generation Facility, the flagship “clean coal” project in rural eastern Mississippi, will rely on natural gas rather than coal to produce electricity, reports Henry Fountain at The New York Times.
The plant, owned by Southern Company, was intended to demonstrate technology that would clean up even the dirtiest of coals. As Fountain writes, “[t]he lignite coal that is mined adjacent to the Kemper County plant emits more climate-warming carbon dioxide per unit of heat than other coal, and far more than natural gas.”
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