Here is her Twitter announcement
We told you we were serious about carbon capture and #CCUS! Check out this exciting commercialization announcement. We are proud of our partners. #decadeofaction # np2050 #wecapturecarbon #umvironment #economy Thx @AkshatRathi @ 8riverscapital #NetZero
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-15/us-startup-plans-to-build-first-zero-emission-gas-power-plants?sref=UBrhZ1ro
Originally tweeted by NET Power (@_NETPower) on April 15, 2021.
And additional coverage from E&E News
Carlos Anchondo, E&E News Reporter Published: Friday April 16, 2021
Net Power LLC’s pilot natural gas power plant in La Porte, Texas, hit the “first fire” in 2018. Yesterday, developers announced that the company’s technology is now planned for two large-scale facilities in Colorado and Illinois. @ _NetPower / Twitter
Colorado and Illinois are said to be home to the world’s first zero-emission gas-fired power plants, according to a clean technology company announcement yesterday.
8 Rivers Capital LLC announced plans to build a large-scale gas facility in each state by 2025. It uses proprietary technology from Net Power LLC to generate 280 megawatts of clean electricity.
Industry observers dubbed yesterday’s announcements “huge,” saying that Net Power’s technology could be instrumental in helping the United States achieve a low-carbon power grid.
Unlike a conventional natural gas plant, the energy startup’s technology burns natural gas with pure oxygen instead of air and only generates carbon dioxide and water as by-products. Most of the CO2 is reused as part of Net Power’s four-step cycle, with the excess CO2 being captured and the pipeline ready for underground storage.
Net Power was founded in 2010 and suffered a “first fire” in its test facility outside of Houston in 2018. The company said it had validated the technology (Greenwire, May 31, 2018).
8 Rivers is a co-owner of Net Power and is developing each of the projects with separate parties. According to the developers, both systems would be connected to the power grid.
Rich Powell, executive director of the conservative clean energy company ClearPath, called Net Power’s technology a “game changer” and said it could take advantage of the “virtually infinite supply of inexpensive natural gas” in the US.
“If this thing works, the decarbonization of the US energy sector will be a lot easier,” Powell said yesterday, adding that “the big hurdles are really behind these projects.”
Net Power plans to license the technology. According to the US Energy Information Administration, natural gas accounts for around 36% of total US electricity generation.
Deepika Nagabhushan, decarbonized fossil fuel program director for the Clean Air Task Force, said in a statement that it is exciting to see another carbon capture technology company developing carbon-free supply projects from whom we know will be keys to accomplishing [a] Net zero carbon power grid. “
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