PowerPoint presentation from "Keynote Speakers" session at 2004 Gasification Technology Conference. Powers, responsible for all of AEP's power generation activities, elaborates on AEP's announcement in September 2004 that the company would build at least one commercial-scale IGCC powerplant before the end of the decade.

States that AEP's "core competency" is coal (72% of its 38,000 Mwe) but "changing environmental regulations plus concern about CO2 require something else from coal." AEP believes that "something else" is IGCC.

AEP's current IGCC project concept: (1) proven systems (not an R&D project); (2) up to 1,000 MWe (could well be more than one plant and site); and (3) regulated utility powerplant (rate based, not a merchant plant).

© 2009 Fred H. Hutchison  (www.clean-energy.us)