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    Louisiana Utility conducting front-end engineering study for Carbon Capture site at Coal-Fired Power unit

    April 19, 2022
    A Front End Engineering Design (FEED) study is underway for the Project Diamond Vault, which will re-engineer the existing Madison 3 plant to reduce CO2 emissions by 95% through CCS technology
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    Cleco Power is developing a state-of-the-art carbon capture facility at its multi-fuel Brame Energy Center in central Louisiana.

    A Front End Engineering Design (FEED) study is underway for the Project Diamond Vault, which will re-engineer the existing Madison 3 plant to reduce CO2 emissions by 95% through CCS technology.

    Project Diamond Vault will be one of the first U.S. projects to capture the CO2 emissions of the power plant and sequester them in geological formations. Madison 3 has low sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and particulates emissions as it uses advanced combustion technology and pollution control measures.

    The FEED study will cost about $12 million and take approximately 18 months. Cleco Power is obtained $9 million in congressional appropriation, which will help with the FEED study costs. Once the study is completed, Cleco Power will raise approximately $900 million in project capital funding via tax credits, private equity investment and grants from the DOE.

    Sargent & Lundy is the engineer and Battelle is providing advice on the characterization of geological storage capacity, permitting and storage operations.

    The 1.6-GW Brame Energy Center has gas-fired and coal-fired generation units. Much of the power plant was completed in stages through the 1970s and ‘80s.

    Madison Unit 3, has a generation capacity of about 641 MW utilizing coal and biomass feedstocks. It was constructed and completed in 2010.

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    Rod Walton is senior editor for EnergyTech.com. He has spent 14 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist.

    Walton formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

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