East Kentucky Power Cooperative announced last week it would build the plant Smith 1 at the Clark County site of a baseload coal project, J.K. Smith, abandoned by East Kentucky more than a decade ago.
The new plant will be a clean coal project that utilizes circulating fluidized bed technology to remove most emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide, Platts reported.
If approved by regulators, the plant will begin operation in 2009.
Eastern Kentucky are also scheduled to begin initial synchronization of another clean coal plant near Maysville at the end of this year, with commercial operation set for April 2005.
The $400 million, low-emission E.A. Gilbert Generating Unit will be the cleanest coal-fired generating unit in America and utilizes non-selective catalytic reduction technology to reduce emissions. The unit will use a Circulating Fluidized Bed process that removes about 98% of sulfur dioxide and about 80% of nitrogen oxide emissions.
