Editing FutureGen (section)

{{Short description|Cancelled coal power station project}}
{{Infobox power station
| name                = Meredosia Power Station
| name_official       = FutureGen 2.0
| image               = Futuregen DOE Concept art.jpg
| image_caption       = DOE FutureGen concept art c.2007
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| coordinates = {{coord|39|49|23|N|90|33|58|W|type:landmark_region:US|display=inline,title}}
| country             = United States
| location            = [[Morgan County, Illinois]]
| status              = Cancelled
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| owner               = FutureGen Industrial Alliance, Inc
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| th_fuel_primary     = [[Coal]]
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| ps_electrical_capacity= 229 [[Megawatt|MW]]
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'''FutureGen''' was a project to demonstrate [[carbon capture and storage|capture and sequestration]] of waste carbon dioxide from a coal-fired electrical generating station. The project (renamed FutureGen 2.0) was retrofitting a shuttered coal-fired power plant in [[Meredosia, Illinois]], with [[Oxy-fuel combustion process|oxy-combustion]] generators.  The waste CO<sub>2</sub> would be piped approximately {{convert|30|mi}} to be sequestered in underground saline formations. FutureGen was a [[partnership]] between the [[United States government]] and an alliance of primarily coal-related corporations. Costs were estimated at US$1.65&nbsp;billion, with $1.0&nbsp;billion provided by the Federal Government.<ref name="TechRev15Sept2014">{{cite journal | url=http://www.technologyreview.com/news/530661/construction-begins-at-a-carbon-capture-plant-but-will-it-ever-be-completed/ | title=Construction Begins at a Carbon-Capture Plant, but Will It Ever Be Completed? | journal=MIT Technology Review |date=15 September 2014 |last=Talbot | first=David}}</ref><ref name="MITCCST">{{cite web | url=https://sequestration.mit.edu/tools/projects/futuregen.html | title=FutureGen Fact Sheet: Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Project | publisher=MIT Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program | access-date=25 October 2014}}</ref><ref name="FGAFAQ">{{cite web | url=http://futuregenalliance.org/faqs/ | title=FAQs | publisher=FutureGen Alliance | access-date=25 October 2014 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102052620/http://futuregenalliance.org/faqs/ | archive-date=2 November 2014 }}</ref>

First announced by President [[George W. Bush]] in 2003, construction started in 2014 after restructuring, canceling, relocating, and restarting.<ref name="TechRev15Sept2014"/><ref name="CRSHistory"/> Citing an inability to commit and spend the funds by deadlines in 2015, the Department of Energy withdrew funds and suspended FutureGen 2.0 in February, 2015. The government also cited the Alliance's inability to raise the requisite amount of private funding.<ref name="bloombergsuspend">{{cite news | url=http://www.bna.com/doe-suspends-billion-n17179922773/ | title=DOE Suspends $1 Billion in FutureGen Funds, Killing Carbon Capture Demonstration Project | work=Energy and Climate Report | date=4 February 2015 | agency=Bloomberg BNA | access-date=10 February 2015 | last=Natter | first=Ari | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150212031152/http://www.bna.com/doe-suspends-billion-n17179922773/ | archive-date=12 February 2015 | url-status=dead }}</ref> The Meredosia power plant that had been planned for retrofit was demolished around 2021.<ref>{{cite web | last=McDaniel-Ogletree | first=Samantha | title=Piece by piece, landmark Meredosia smokestacks fading | website=Jacksonville Journal-Courier | date=26 July 2021 | url=https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/Piece-by-piece-landmark-Meredosia-smokestacks-16341780.php | access-date=27 May 2023}}</ref>

FutureGen 2.0 would have been the most comprehensive Department of Energy Carbon Capture and Storage demonstration project, involving all phases from combustion to sequestration.<ref name="CRSHistory"/> FutureGen's initial plan involved [[integrated gasification combined cycle]] technology to produce both electricity and hydrogen. Early in the project it was to be sited in Mattoon, IL.<ref name="CRSHistory">{{cite report|last1=Folger|first1=Peter|title=The FutureGen Carbon Capture and Sequestration Project: A Brief History and Issues for Congress|url=https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R43028.pdf|publisher=Congressional Research Service|date=10 Feb 2014|access-date=21 July 2014}}</ref>