CGCC repowering nears commercial startup
The Wabash River Project is a joint venture of Destec Energy Inc. (Destec) of Houston, Texas, and PSI. These companies formed a unique partnership to jointly develop, design, construct, own and operate a commercial coal gasification combined-cycle (CGCC) power plant at PSI`s Wabash River Generating Station. With this project, Destec and PSI are participating in the US Department of Energy`s (DOE) Clean Coal Technology (CCT) Program to demonstrate coal gasification repowering of an existing generating unit affected by the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA). This first fully integrated commercial CGCC repowering project in the US will repower one of PSI`s six Wabash River units. Upon startup in 1995, the project will be the largest operating single-train CGCC plant in the world and will use locally mined high-sulfur coal to produce some of the lowest-cost electricity on the PSI system.
- OSTI ID:
- 72457
- Journal Information:
- Power Engineering (Barrington), Journal Name: Power Engineering (Barrington) Journal Issue: 6 Vol. 99; ISSN POENAI; ISSN 0032-5961
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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