The Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP) is a “NowGen” Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC) facility that will
incorporate carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology in a first-of-its-kind commercial clean coal power plant. TCEP will be a 400MW power/poly-gen project that will also produce urea for the U.S. fertilizer market and capture 90 percent of its carbon dioxide (CO2) – approximately 3 million tons per year – which will be used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) in the West Texas Permian Basin. TCEP is being developed by Seattle-based Summit Power Group, which in June 2010 launched a Front End Engineering Design Study (FEED) in conjunction with Siemens, Fluor Corporation and Selas Fluid Processing Corporation, a Linde Group subsidiary. TCEP received a $450MM award in 2010 from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI). TCEP received its final air quality permit from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) on December 28, 2010. The project will be located in Penwell, Texas, 15 miles west of Odessa; construction is scheduled to begin in the fourth quarter of 2011.
The Texas Clean Energy project will be the first United States based power plant that combines both Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle and carbon capture and storage technologies.
DOE Featured Story
On January 19th, 2012, The Department Of Energy featured the The Texas Clean Energy project on the home page of its website.
The Department of Energy is working with industry to keep the United States at the forefront of carbon capture, utilization, and storage technologies.