editor
31,976
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
no edit summary
{{#badges: CoalSwarm| Climate change}}
'''Antelope Valley Station''' is a coal-fired power station owned and operated by [[Basin Electric Power Cooperative]] near Beulah, North Dakota.
{{#display_map:
47.367903, -101.837286
|zoom=1416|width=600|height=500
|type=satellite
}}
In July 2009, the project received up to $100 million from the [[Department of Energy]]'s [[Clean Coal Power Initiative]].<ref>[http://www.eenews.net/public/eenewspm/2009/07/01/7 "DOE provides stimulus cash for 'clean coal' plants,"] E&E News PM, July 1, 2009.</ref>
Some state representatives are seeking $100 million in state support to match the federal grant. The project's initial engineering and design work should be completed by the end of 2010, Basin spokesman Daryl Hill said. North Dakota's Industrial Commission, which oversees a state coal research fund, put up $2.7 million for the study, which equaled half its expected cost.<ref name="dw"july 2010>Dale Wetzel, [http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9H9BVF00.htm "ND PSC candidate backing carbon dioxide project"] Bloomberg, July 30, 2010.</ref>
In August 2010, [[Basin Electric Power Cooperative]] said it was searching for customers to buy the carbon dioxide it plans to retain from the experimental Antelope Valley power plant. A potential buyer is the oil industry, which uses carbon dioxide for enhanced oil recovery in some geologic formations. Designers hope the project will be able to capture up to 1 million tons of the gas annually. The legislative committee's chairman, Sen. Rich Wardner, R-Dickinson, said he believed a surge in carbon dioxide demand was in the offing for western North Dakota's oil industry.<ref name="dw">Dale Wetzel, [http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9HMKHK84.htm "Basin Electric project still seeking CO2 customers"] Bloomberg, August 19, 2010.</ref>
