Birmingham, AL – Southern Co. will operate the National Carbon Capture Center at a facility next to Alabama Power's Gaston plant at Wilsonville.
The company announced Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Energy's center will develop and test advanced technologies to capture carbon dioxide from coal-based power plants. The goal of carbon capture is reducing the amount of carbon dioxide that a coal-fired electricity plant releases to the atmosphere.
The center will work with scientists and technology developers from government, industry and universities to build the next generation of enhanced carbon capture technologies.
The site can conduct testing and analyses in a power plant setting at a size large enough to provide meaningful performance data,
The center is expected to be fully operational in 2010.
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