Edwardsport News

Duke Energy is planning to finance at least part of the cost to study a proposed carbon dioxide storage project by increasing its customers' electric rates.

A huge load made its way to a new home in southern Indiana and tied traffic up a little along the way.

Duke Energy has filed plans with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission for a proposed carbon dioxide storage project in Southwest Indiana.

Marking a significant step forward in the use of cleaner coal technology to help meet the country's future energy requirements, the first major pieces of equipment have arrived at Duke Energy's Integrated Gasification Combined-Cycle plant in Edwardsport, Ind.

Indiana State Police want to warn people of traffic delays that may occur Wednesday morning, June 17.

Edwardsport Indiana may be a small community, but it has one big opening on the horizon.

Recently, Lt. Governor Becky Skillman announced that 26 rural communities will receive Community Focus Fund grants totaling $11,781,699. The grants are funded by the federal Community Development Block Grant program, which is administered by the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs.

EDWARDSPORT, Ind. - Duke Energy plans to rebuild a dilapidated eight-mile rail line to haul waste from a coal-gasification power plant it is building in southwestern Indiana.

Duke Energy has selected a rail spur route to serve its new Knox County power plant.

CAPTURE AND STORAGE: The new boiler at the Schwarze Pumpe power plant in Spremberg, Germany, captures 95 percent of the carbon dioxide from its coal burning and stores it in the big tanks pictured here, being lifted into place in September 2007.

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN INDIANAPOLIS HAS ISSUED A * FLOOD WARNING FOR THE WHITE RIVER AT ELLISTON.

Indiana advances leadership in clean coal technology March 24, 2009- Indiana's leadership in homegrown clean energy production moved another step forward this week when Governor Mitch Daniels signed into law a measure that will bring new generation substitute natural gas technology to the state, provide billions in savings to energy customers and ...

INDIANAPOLIS -- Gov. Mitch Daniels signed a bill into law Tuesday that allows the state's finance authority to negotiate long-term contracts to buy and sell synthetic natural gas from a planned southern Indiana coal-gasification plant.

Indiana took a big step into the realm of so-called clean coal technology Tuesday.

Duke Energy hopes to tap $3.4 billion of stimulus funds to build the nation's first clean coal plant, burning the coal in a gaseous form and storing the CO2 emissions.

ATTN Matthew Wald at the NY Times: Does This Look Like "Environment-Friendly" Coal to You?! Originally posted at WattHead - Energy News and Commentary Writing today for the New York Times, Matthew Wald looks at the increased prospects for new coal plants that capture and store their CO2, due to investments in CCS demonstration plants included in ...

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Environment - "Stimulus Money Puts Clean Coal Projects on a Faster Track" That is the headline to this story by Matthew L. Wald of the NY Times , dateline Edwardsport, Indiana.

The $2 billion Duke Energy power plant under construction near Edwardsport may be the biggest example of green energy in the Wabash Valley.

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The Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission recently approved Duke Energy's revised cost estimate of $2.35B for its clean coal gasification power plant under construction in southwest Indiana.