Tenaska Energy
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Tenaska Energy is one of the largest independent power producers in the United States. The employee-owned company started in 1987 and is headquartered in Omaha, Neb.
Tenaska provides services in the development of power plants, managing energy risk, procuring fuel, marketing energy, transporting gas and the transmission of electricity.
The company is well known and respected within the independent power industry. In 2009, the National Resources Defense Council listed Tenaska as having the best record for controlling emissions of carbon dioxide and as one of the top performing companies for controlling emissions of nitrogen oxide and sulfur.
Tenaska is currently working on two carbon capture and sequestration projects: the Trailblazer Energy Center in Nolan County, Texas and the Taylorville Energy Center in Christian County, Ill.
The Trailblazer facility will capture, dehydrate, compress and deliver up to 90 percent of its carbon dioxide via pipeline to the Permian Basin oil fields in West Texas for use in enhanced oil recovery
and geological storage. Construction will start in 2009 with commercial operation by 2014.
The Taylorville project will use hybrid integrated gasification combined cycle technology (IGCC), which will make it one of the first commercial power plants in the United States to capture at least 50 percent of carbon dioxide emissions using IGCC.
Tenaska provides services in the development of power plants, managing energy risk, procuring fuel, marketing energy, transporting gas and the transmission of electricity.
The company is well known and respected within the independent power industry. In 2009, the National Resources Defense Council listed Tenaska as having the best record for controlling emissions of carbon dioxide and as one of the top performing companies for controlling emissions of nitrogen oxide and sulfur.
Tenaska is currently working on two carbon capture and sequestration projects: the Trailblazer Energy Center in Nolan County, Texas and the Taylorville Energy Center in Christian County, Ill.
The Trailblazer facility will capture, dehydrate, compress and deliver up to 90 percent of its carbon dioxide via pipeline to the Permian Basin oil fields in West Texas for use in enhanced oil recovery
Enhanced oil recovery
Enhanced Oil Recovery is a generic term for techniques for increasing the amount of crude oil that can be extracted from an oil field...
and geological storage. Construction will start in 2009 with commercial operation by 2014.
The Taylorville project will use hybrid integrated gasification combined cycle technology (IGCC), which will make it one of the first commercial power plants in the United States to capture at least 50 percent of carbon dioxide emissions using IGCC.