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LCG, October 16, 2026--The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced on Thursday its new proposal to revise and accelerate its review of air quality effects for proposed natural gas projects under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The draft policy statement highlights revisions designed to (i) avoid unnecessary delays and duplicative analysis and (ii) deliver greater regulatory certainty and a streamlined path forward for project applicants.
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LCG, October 14, 2026--American Electric Power (AEP) today announced plans for a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Google, under which AEP will invest approximately $4 billion to advance a new 702-MW fuel cell generation project located near Cheyenne, Wyoming. Google will acquire power from Cheyenne Fuel Cell, LLC, which is approximately 92 percent owned and controlled by AEP and 8 percent owned by funds advised by Basalt Infrastructure Partners, LLP. AEP and its partners plan to start construction this year and to be fully operational by the end of 2028.
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Pollution-free, Fossil-fueled Power Plant Planned
LCG, Feb. 12, 2001Sometimes it does take a rocket scientist, or a handful of them. According to a report this morning by United Press International, a group of retired rocket scientists has developed a prototype power plant that burns natural gas and emits no nitrogen oxides, no sulphur dioxide, no particulate matter and none of the other things power plants are blamed for.The exhaust contains water, in the form of steam, and pure carbon dioxide which can be sold for industrial uses or used to make soft drinks fizz. There might be so much carbon dioxide that some would have to be sequestered, but that sounds easier to deal with than spent nuclear fuel.The rocket scientists have formed a company, Clean Energy Systems Inc. of Sacramento, Calif., and built a 75 kilowatt prototype which works so well that the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory wants to build a 10 megawatt version. It goes without saying that the old rocket scientists have connections at L-Cubed, as the Lawrence Livermore laboratory is called by cognoscenti.Steve Doyle, chief executive of Clean Energy Systems and, at 65, the youngest of the seven retired employees of Aerojet Inc., told UPI "Our goal is to become the most efficient producer of electricity in the country and to do that with zero emission."The U.S. Department of Energy was sufficiently impressed by the 75 kilowatt model that it has awarded Doyle's company $1.8 million to help build the 10 megawatter. The rocket scientists have added $800,000 of their own money to the project.Livermore has already set up a Zero Emission Steam Technology project headed by Ray Smith. The laboratory will ask the DOE next month for fiscal year 2003 funds to build a facility to house the 10 megawatt demonstration plant. "When it's up and running, we get the benefit of having 10 megawatts of electricity we can use at the lab," which typically needs 53 megawatts for its operations and 8,000-person staff, Smith told the wire service.Harry Brandt, chairman of Clean Energy Systems and an emeritus professor at University of California at Davis, said the clean burning system is based on rocket technology the men developed at Aerojet nearly 40 years ago. Natural gas is burned in pure oxygen instead of air, which results in total combustion.The cost of natural gas fuel and oxygen might seem on the surface to be greater than just the cost of fuel for a conventional power plant, but the increased efficiency in converting gas to heat and heat to electricity would more than make up for the difference. On top of that, there would be no cost for emissions controls or cleaning up contamination."I think this concept represents one of the most significant potentials that we've reviewed," Smith told UPI. "It's sort of a way to have your cake and eat it too. We can continue to use fossil fuels without fouling our nest." He said he thought "pretty significant penetration of the California energy market" was possible by 2020.Doyle said his team is up to the 20-year challenge. All but one of the original seven scientists are still on the company's board, and the missing one died. He was Rudi Beichel, who helped Germany develop the V-2 rocket during World War II and was instrumental in designing the Jupiter rocket in the United States.
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