Summit Power
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Summit Power Group is a Seattle-based power company, responsible for developing electric power plants , which are primarily natural gas-fired and wind-powered, with solar power recently added. Summit does not develop conventional coal-fired power plants without carbon capture. Summit’s prospective IGCC/CCS
projects include the Texas Clean Energy Project
, the Renewable Energy Corporation Project in Montana, and surface facilities for underground coal gasification
(UCG) projects in the early stages of development by Laurus Energy as a licensee of Ergo Exergy.
Carbon capture and storage
Carbon capture and storage , alternatively referred to as carbon capture and sequestration, is a technology to prevent large quantities of from being released into the atmosphere from the use of fossil fuel in power generation and other industries. It is often regarded as a means of mitigating...
projects include the Texas Clean Energy Project
Texas Clean Energy Project
The Texas Clean Energy Project is a project developed by Summit Power Group, Inc , involving the building of the world’s first IGCC clean-coal power plant, a type of carbon capture and storage facility, located near Odessa, Texas.- Background :According to Summit, the future Texas Clean Energy...
, the Renewable Energy Corporation Project in Montana, and surface facilities for underground coal gasification
Underground Coal Gasification
Underground coal gasification is an industrial process, which converts coal into product gas. UCG is an in-situ gasification process carried out in non-mined coal seams using injection of oxidants, and bringing the product gas to surface through production wells drilled from the surface. The...
(UCG) projects in the early stages of development by Laurus Energy as a licensee of Ergo Exergy.