Construction will have to wait. For now, a $2.7-million stimulus award to a Michigan power cooperative will stimulate nothing more than the coop’s chance to receive more stimulus money for a possible carbon-capture and -storage project at a coal-fired powerplant not yet built.
There is still a “great deal of work to be done” before the co-op can answer questions about what the carbon-capture project would entail and what its impact will be, says Nancy Tanner, spokeswoman for Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative Inc., Cadillac, Mich.