Keephills 3 power station

Keephills 3 power station is a proposed 495 megawatt coal-fired power station west of Edmonton. Keephills 3, which is currently being built and scheduled for commissioning in 2011, is jointly owned by TransAlta and Capital Power Corporation. It is also proposed that the plant be retrofitted with carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant by the Project Pioneer consortium.

CCS project hype and collapse
In a media release Transalta state that the project "will pilot Alstom Canada's proprietary chilled ammonia process and will be designed to capture one megatonne (Mt) per year of carbon dioxide (CO2)" from the Keephills 3 power station. "The majority of the captured CO2 is intended to be used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), while the remainder is expected to be injected safely in deep underground storage for permanent storage," the media release stated.

In April 2012 the industry partners in the project announced that they would not proceed with thr project following the completion of a "front end engineering and design (FEED) study". In a media release the companies stated that "although the technology works and capital costs were in-line with expectations, the market for carbon sales and the price of emissions reductions were insufficient to allow the project to proceed."

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Website: http://www.capitalpower.com/Consultation/Keephills3/Pages/default.aspx

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