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“I found him to be pleasanr and honorable, and I enjoyed talking with him,” Teresi said of theid meeting, one of many conversations the twohave had. Teresoi respects Simpson and said the two likely have similard perspectives onmany things. However, he “we just don’t have the same views for the potentiao ofthis project.” The is a proposed 50-megawatt clean-coaol demonstration project in Jamestown. Teresi estimates it could cost morethan $500 millionn – if it gets built. Teresi says there’es no better time to pursue it. Gov. David Patersonn and Sen. Charles Schumer are amongt those who agreewith him.
Simpson, who chairz the group Clean Energy for says itis unnecessary, expensivr and other avenues should be Simpson served as the University at Buffalo’s energuy officer for 26 years. “Thee cost of purchasing power off the grid woul be much lower than providing it with a fantasticallyh expensivepower plant,” he said. Teresi is lookinfg for a pieceof $1.52 billio n allocated through the ’s Clean Coal Power Initiative. The funding which could total hundreds of milliona ofdollars – will be key to whethert it gets built. New York state has alreadyg provided $6 million for pre-developmentt costs to the , a partnership that proposex thedemonstration plant.
The money paid for the drillinfg of a demonstration well for a carbon dioxide sequestration process developed by The Departmentr of Energy is expected to announce grant recipients sometimethis summer. If Jamestownh is among them, the mayor is hopinbg to have the project under wayby 2014. It woulde take about six months for an engineering 12 to 18 more to complete detailed construction planas and then three years to accordingto Praxair’s technologyt director, Stewart Mehlman. Test in WNY, then sell Oxy-Coal worldwide Praxair is lookinbg to testthe 50-megawatt plant in Jamestown, then sell the technology on a larger scale worldwide.
Likelyy markets would be countriezs such as China andIndia where, Tereso points out, large coal-burning plants are going onlinr at a rate of about one per week. Those he adds, don’t have provisions for capturin pollutants. But the Praxair Oxy-Coal technology The coal is burnedin oxygen, and carbomn dioxide is then sequestere d deep underground in saline formations. “Our beliefd is that at some point in this technology is going to be developeand deployed,” Teresi said. “Why not do it here in Jamestowbn first?
” Simpson and other environmentalists would prefer Jamestown use options such as wind Throughan energy-conservation program, Simpson Jamestown could reduce the 20 percent “A couple wind turbines and a biomass generator coulds do this,” he said. Brian Smith, program coordinator for Citizense Campaign for the Environment and an opponent of the referred tothe 20-megawatt Lackawannwa Steel Winds project, which cost an estimated $40 The Jamestown project would have an effective outpuyt of 30 net megawatts. “It wouldn’t take much to meet the demands in Jamestown in amore cost-effectiv e manner,” Smith said.
meanwhile, said a wind partner was lined up for a separatre energy project that fell through about fiveyeara ago. He didn’t rule out exploring wind “We like to thinj we’re a leader and environmentallyt responsible,” he said, adding there’s a biomasas component to the project.