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GE and CPECC Sign Agreements with USTDA to Advance Commercial Scale IGCC in China

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Gasification technology has become a critical tool in the expansion of the Chinese economy, allowing a wide variety of industrial products and fuels to be created from low-cost, abundant coal resources. and the Polk Tampa Electric IGCC plant in Florida that helped demonstrate the commercial feasibility of IGCC.

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US DOE Awarding Up To $62M for Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development

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CSP technologies concentrate the sun’s energy and capture that energy as heat, which then drives an engine or turbine to produce electrical power. SENER Engineering and Systems Inc. – University of South Florida – Tampa, FL – up to $2.5 San Francisco, CA – up to $3.1 SkyFuel, Inc. Albuquerque, NM – up to $4.3

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DOE NETL selects 12 fossil-fuel power systems projects for funding

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DOE: $749,322 Non DOE: $255,131 Total: $1,004,453 (25% cost share). Research Triangle Institute.

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