Texas Clean Energy Project

Location: Texas, United States of America

Proponent: Summit Power Inc

Technical aspects

• Summit Power Group is developing a new 400 MWe integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) coal-based power plant in Penwell, Texas.
• 2.5 million tonnes per annum of carbon dioxide (CO₂) would be captured at the plant.
• Use in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) would be facilitated by the existing Val Verde CO₂ pipeline that also collects CO₂ from five natural gas processing plants, such as Mitchell, Gray Ranch, Puckett and Turrell.

Key Deliverables

• In October 2009 Summit Power and Blue Source announced agreement on CO₂ management.
• A long-term CO₂ sales agreement was signed with Whiting Petroleum Corporation in July 2011.Project operations are due to start in 2015.

The proposed Texas Clean Energy Project is located at the 600-acre Penwell site, which was one of the sites previously considered in the competition to locate FutureGen 1.0. The plant will provide CO₂ for EOR in the Permian Basin in West Texas, along with producing any number of other commercial products from gasified coal.

The project was awarded US$450 million in funding by the United States Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) as part of the Clean Coal Power Initiative Round III. In October 2011, the U.S. DOE issued a Record of Decision that allows the project to proceed and spend federal funds beyond engineering and design studies.