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ACCCE Factuality Tour Highlights WE Energies Pleasant Prairie Power Plant

Posted on: Thursday, 11 June 2009, 16:43 CDT

PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wis., June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- The Factuality Tour came to Wisconsin recently to showcase the WE Energies Pleasant Prairie Power Plant as one of the premier demonstration sites in the U.S. currently capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the use of coal for electricity.

Produced by the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE), the Factuality Tour has been filming throughout the Midwest to demonstrate how America's reliable electricity supply is produced from the "mine to plug."

"The WE Energies Power Plant is the very definition of clean coal technology in action," said Joe Lucas, senior vice president of communications for ACCCE. "Since it came online 30 years ago, the plant has been retrofitted with advanced clean coal technologies resulting in a 90 percent reduction of nitrogen oxide (NOX) and a 95 percent reduction in sulfur dioxide emissions (SO2)."

The Pleasant Prairie facility is also playing a major role in securing America's clean energy future. The facility is home to a pilot project using a chilled ammonia process to capture CO2 from an existing power plant. Developed by Alstom Power Inc., the demonstration project captures 90 percent of the carbon emissions from one percent of the plant's flu gas.

Lucas continued, "From an economic standpoint, plants such as these will continue to serve as major tax revenue bases and sources of income for states and local communities. Significant changes are coming to the infrastructure of our energy makeup in this country. There is little doubt of the benefit these changes will have on local economies as we look to simultaneously create jobs and provide energy for our nation."

To view the ACCCE Factuality Tour, click here: http://www.americaspower.org/factuality.

About ACCCE

The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) is a non-profit, non-partisan partnership of companies involved in producing electricity from coal. Because coal is America's most abundant energy resource, ACCCE supports energy policies that balance coal's vital role in meeting our country's growing need for affordable and reliable electricity with the need to protect the environment. ACCCE also advocates for the development and deployment of advanced clean coal technologies that will produce electricity with near-zero emissions. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. For more information, visit www.cleancoalusa.org or http://www.americaspower.org/

SOURCE ACCCE

Source: PR Newswire

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