GreenGen Power Station

The GreenGen coal gasification plant in Tianjin, China, is a US$1.5 billion carbon capture and storage project of a consortium of Chinese companies, including China’s state-owned Huaneng Group, with Peabody Energy of St Louis, Missouri.

The first phase is a 250-megawatt integrated gasification combined cycle power plant, which will convert coal into ‘syngas’ — a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen — to be burned in specialized turbines to produce electricity. The second phase will be a smaller pilot plant designed to send a "clean" stream of hydrogen through fuel cells and turbines to produce electricity, with carbon dioxide being captured for industrial use. The third phase, scheduled for 2015–20, will be a 400-megawatt power plant with full-scale carbon capture and storage in underground rock layers. The 2020 goal represents a delay beyond the original completion date of 2015.

GreenGen was originally seen as a follow-up to the US's FutureGen, whose fate is uncertain.

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