Duke Energy: Carbon Storage Project
July 6, 2009 by Stephen Kersey
Filed under Business
Duke Energy is proposing a carbon dioxide storage project in the state of Indiana. The ball is now in the court of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission.
The goal of the project is to keep carbon dioxide emissions from going into the atmosphere. Studies have shown that carbon dioxide emissions have caused global warming.
Said Jim Stanley of Duke Energy: “Indiana gets more than 90 percent of its electric power from coal, and our country has hundreds of years of reserves. The real-world testing of carbon capture and storage is critical to the continued use of an abundant and relatively inexpensive domestic energy source. This is a step toward the important goal of exploring the permanent underground storage of carbon dioxide emissions.”
The location for the project would be near the Edwardsport power plant in southwest Indiana.
Explained Stanley: “This will be one of the nation’s first demonstrations of carbon capture and storage at a power plant,” Stanley said. “Edwardsport will be one of the cleanest coal-fired plants in the world when it’s completed.”
Duke Energy and Global Warming (Image: Flickr)
