The world's first full-scale carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) facility of its kind at a commercial coal plant is performing better than expected, officials from SaskPower, the Canadian facility that owns the plant, said at a recent meeting in Washington, D.C.
CCS has been touted by the Obama administration and advocates around the globe as a way to enable coal to remain part of the energy mix in a carbon- constrained world. But many power utilities are reluctant to invest in CCS projects because they say the technology is untested at commercial scale in the power sector and that the plants are too expensive to build and operate.