Southern Co. exec bullish on CCS, down on EPA regs

摘要

A top executive at Southern Co. expressed optimism this morning about the future of carbon capture technology efforts despite her company's troubles with one of the country's most visible projects. In recent weeks, Southern said it was pushing back the launch of its Kemper County, Miss., carbon capture coal-fired power plant project to the second part of 2015. And the cost has gone up from under $3 billion to roughly $5.6 billion (ClimateWire, Oct. 3). "Nothing worth doing is easy," Kimberly Greene, Southern's chief operating officer, said during a meeting of the National Coal Council in Washington, D.C. "While it's hard today, we're going to look back in a few years with pride."