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Carbon capture technology deployed at power plant

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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd has announced the successful start of operations of a 25 Megawatt carbon capture facility at Southern Company’s Plant Barry, owned and operated by Alabama Power. This facility utilizes the KM CDR Process ® capture technology jointly developed by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and the Kansai Electric Power Co Inc. Built in collaboration with Southern Company it is believed to be the world’s largest carbon capture and sequestration facility attached to a coal-fired

power plant using a proven capture technology. It will capture approximately 150,000 tons of CO2 annually (500 tons/day) for permanent underground storage in a deep saline geologic formation. MHIA president & CEO Mitch Morimoto said: “This is a significant milestone and is part of our strategic effort to commercialize our KM CDR Process ® CO 2 technology. Coal is abundant and relatively cheap, so it is important for world energy security and environmental protection to develop technologies and to find

ways to preserve coal as a fuel source.” Captured CO 2 will be supplied to the Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership and transported roughly 11 miles by pipeline before injection 9,500 feet below the Citronelle oilfield where it will remain, permanently trapped in the geologic formation.

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