While the site has not yet been selected (although more than a dozen U.S. states are vying for it), and the technology selection has not yet been finalized, the "state-of-the-art IGCC plant" being developed by the FutureGen Industrial Alliance (www.futuregenalliance.org) is expected to eventually become the jewel in the crown of DOE's long-running Clean Coal R&D program. The broad industrial coalition is working toward building a coal-gasification-based power plant-targeted to be online by 2012-that combines zero emissions, hydrogen co-production, and long-term underground CO_2 sequestration.
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