by Ann Withanee — September 10, 2010—Clean Energy Systems (CES) has been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) for $30 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding to accelerate development of zero emission power plants using a variety of fuel sources.
The DOE will provide $30 million under ARRA to support development of a first-of-a-kind commercial-scale oxy-fuel turbine, which is central to CES technology, says the company. The oxy-fuel turbine can use a diverse set of fuels including natural gas, bio-fuels, refinery off gases, and gasified petroleum coke, while capturing nearly all the carbon dioxide.
Total program costs of approximately $43 million will be used to build and test a 150 megawatt turbine with accompanying CES technology by 2012. The program is expected to contribute over 150 direct jobs and thousands of indirect jobs over the next several years.
The funding builds on work initiated in 2005 under the DOE’s Advanced Turbine program. Working with its partners, Siemens Energy and Florida Turbine Technologies, CES has completed the necessary engineering to develop the commercial-scale oxy-turbine.
Siemens will support design efforts, materials testing, and turbine manufacture from its facilities in Orlando and Houston. Manufacturing of the turbine will commence within the next few months, with testing to follow in 2011 at the company’s Kimberlina Demonstration Plant in Bakersfield, California.
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