Update: Status of Transmission Development Supporting New Generation Originating in Wyoming

Wyoming is a major net exporter of electricity with about two-thirds of the current generation transmitted out of state. Development of new electricity generation in Wyoming must go hand in hand with investments in expanding transmission capacity to deliver the electricity to growing markets in the Pacific Northwest, California and the Southwest. Read more here.

NextGen Report: Potential for Alternative Transportation Fuels Production in Western States

NextGen has developed a brief using information from the Department of Energy and EPA which highlights the potential in the Western states for producing alternative transportation fuels, particularly coal-to-liquids projects.

The purpose of the brief is to show that environmentally acceptable design options exist today, in particular those reducing CO2 production and the use of water, using commercially available technology. Because of their coal resources and existing energy infrastructure, the Western states have an important role to play in providing the country with domestically produced transportation fuels. For a copy of the brief, please click here.

Status of New Coal-Fired Power Plants in the Western U.S.

To see where new plants are being built in the Western U.S., and whether they're under construction, in the permitting phase, or have been canceled or delayed,  go here.

Technology Breakthrough Papers

Diversified Energy's HydroMax Coal and Biomass Gasifier
The HydroMax advanced gasification technology is a unique molten-metals technology designed to produce synthesis gas for the U.S. industrial market. Learn more.

CoalTek's Electromagnetic Process To Upgrade Coal
CoalTek uses electromagnetic energy to reduce the moisture in low rank coals such as sub bituminous coal from the Powder River Basin. Learn more.

FMI's Cowboy Coal Upgrading Technology
FMI Cowboy Coal upgrades low rank coal by using established fluid bed reactor hardware and patented technology to lower the moisture content, significantly increase the Btu value and reduce mercury content. Learn more.

Ramgen Power System's CO2 Compressor
Ramgen Power Systems Inc. is developing an advanced CO2 compression unit that has demonstrated the ability to achieve high compression efficiently using high single-stage compression ratios resulting in a simpler, smaller product that is more cost-effective to build and operate. Learn more.

FGX Dry Density Coal Separator
The FGX Separator is an updated application of time-tested methodologies for removing dense rock material from run-of-mine (ROM) coal using a dry density separator. Learn more.

Solix Biofuels Algae Technology
Solix Biofuels is developing a closed algae growth system that overcomes the barriers to commercial algae growth for biofuel production and CO2 sequestration. Learn more.

Coal Drying
Great River Energy is undertaking a coal drying process which increases efficiency  and reduces emissions from high moisture coal feedstock used in power plants.  Learn more.

Carbon Dioxide Capture Technology
Powerspan Corp. has developed a post-combustion process that uses an ammonia-based solution to capture CO2 from the flue gas of a conventional coal-fueled electric power plant and release it in a form that is ready for safe transportation and permanent geological storage. Learn more.

Refined Coal:  A Clean Coal Breakthrough
Evergreen Energy Inc. has developed a patented, pre-combustion refinement process using heat and pressure to reduce moisture in coal and contaminants in lower rank coals.  Learn more.

Putting Algae To Work Capturing CO2
A2BE Carbon Capture is developing a revolutionary, bio-secure, scaleable, climate adaptive and cost-effective algae cultivation and bioharvesting technology.  Learn more

Do you know of a breakthrough fossil energy technology that deserves to be highlighted to policymakers, the news media and industry leaders nationwide?  Contact us!