The kemper project, also called the kemper county energy facility or plant ratcliffe, is a natural gasfired electrical generating station currently under construction in kemper county, mississippi. The integrated gasification combined cycle igcc plant located in kemper county, mississippi, is a 2 x 1 plant that will produce 582 mw at peak and 524 mw fired on syngas, with ammonia, sulfuric. Kemper igcc plant with ccs strategic energy institute georgia. Settlement approved for mississippi powers kemper power. Even as kemper power plant struggles, it might outlive. Enlarge cranes stand at the construction site for southern co. The obama administration hoped that the kemper county power plant, under construction in mississippi, would show that coal could be processed cleanly. Major clean coal project in mississippi shuts down. With hundreds of highlyskilled and safetyminded workers, we currently operate six power plants. Southern company kemper county, mississippi department. Kemper county carbon capture and sequestration technologies. Some in the coal industry believed the kemper county plant being built by mississippi power could save the industry. Mississippi regulators approve deal on rates for kemper power plant. Department of energy doe has prepared this environmental impact statement eis to eva luate the potential impacts of a power generation project.
The final casualty in the kemper power plant story could be coal itself. Southerns clean coal experiment ends with mississippi order by. Kemper county and the perils of clean coal technology. The pulverized coal power station will be a new construction with a base.
The kemper county igcc plant is situated in close proximity to an estimated 4 billion tons of mineable mississippi lignite. The kemper county igcc project is a scaleup of a test plant already in operation at the power systems development facility psdf in wilsonville, al. The initial, coalfired project was central to president obamas climate plan, as it was to be based on. One of the largest counties in the state of mississippi, kemper county offers a wide range of economic, educational, and recreational opportunities for both citizens and visitors, and we provide highquality health and human services for our residents. The kemper project, also called the kemper county energy facility or plant ratcliffe, is a natural gasfired electrical generating station currently under. The plant was supposed to use new technology to burn cheap, wet coal found.
A fired engineer at a nowaborted mississippi power co. Kemper county integrated gasification combined cycle igcc. Theres no new information with kemper county s power plant. Kemper county igcc project preliminary public design. Mississippi power, a subsidiary of southern company, began construction of the plant in 2010.
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The plant has an installed capacity of 582mw and uses lignite brown coal as fuel to generate electricity. Overview of the kemper county igcc project using transport. The kemper igcc plant is a combinedcycle power plant in kemper county, mississippi. The kemper county igcc project is an advanced coal technology project that is being developed by mississippi power company mpc. Department of energy awarded a cooperative agreement to southern company services under the clean coal power initiative ccpi round 2 program to provide financial support for the development and deployment of the transport integrated gasification trig tm technology that is being utilized by the project. This diversity is key to keeping energy costs stable. Manual work, or climbing, would be limited to areas inaccessible. Mississippi power has a generating fleet made up of both coal and natural gas power plants.