Published: July 16, 2008 02:17 pm            

BREAKING NEWS: Plans for Huntley clean coal site scrapped

After nearly a year and a half of work, the new clean coal plant at the NRG Huntley Power Station has gone up in smoke.

The New York Power Authority, which entered into a memorandum of understanding with NRG in January 2007 to purchase power from the new plant if costs could be reduced, pulled its support from the project Wednesday. The cost of the carbon sequestration technology that would substantially reduce emissions resulted in too large a price gap to make the energy produced afffordable, said NYPA spokeswoman Christine Pritchard.

“The economic, technical and regulatory obstacles are too great to warrant further efforts at this time,” Prichard said.

For the complete story, see Thursday's newspaper.

        

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