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Clean Air Task Force Commends Duke Energy and China???s Largest Utility on Pioneering Joint Clean Energy Agreement
Agreement Expected to Advance Cleaner-Coal Technologies Including Carbon Capture and Storage

Press Release
Source: Clean Air Task Force
On Monday August 10, 2009, 8:30 am EDT
Buzz up! 0 Print.BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Clean Air Task Force (CATF), a Boston-based environmental advocacy organization, today commended the pioneering agreement between major US and Chinese utilities to support the development of cleaner energy technologies.

Under terms of the agreement, senior executives from Duke Energy and China???s largest utility, China Huaneng Group, will launch an immediate effort to share information, technology and other resources. Both companies pledged to explore long-term initiatives to reduce coal plant carbon emissions including carbon capture and storage, and to develop renewable energy technologies.

Beijing- and US-based CATF staff facilitated contacts between Duke and Huaneng, as part of CATF effort to accelerate commercialization of low-carbon electricity generation technologies. These efforts include promoting partnerships between innovative energy companies in China and the West.

???This is exactly the type of cooperation that will be necessary to limit global carbon emissions,??? said Jonathan Lewis, an attorney and climate specialist for CATF. ???Based on their common interests, China and the US are natural partners rather than rivals on climate change. Together, the two countries account for about half the world???s carbon dioxide emissions.???

Solving coal???s carbon dioxide emissions is key to preventing the worst impacts of global warming. Coal is responsible for more than 40% of global carbon dioxide emissions, and its use is projected to double in the next 30 years. Over the last five years, China has built enough new coal plants to rival the size of the entire US coal fleet even though half of the electricity produced in the United States comes from coal.

Duke is currently building a coal gasification project in Edwardsport, Indiana that would have exceptionally low emissions of pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide. Duke is seeking to deploy carbon capture and storage technology at the plant. Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a process by which carbon dioxide is removed from coal emissions and then injected deep underground.

Huaneng is the majority shareholder in China???s GreenGen gasification project, and is actively developing post-combustion carbon capture systems at coal plants in Beijing and Shanghai.

???This agreement is a model for how both countries can work together and find common solutions,??? Lewis concluded.

About the Clean Air Task Force

The Clean Air Task Force is a national environmental organization dedicated to restoring clean air through scientific research, public education, and legal advocacy. The Clean Air Task Force is comprised of twenty professionals with backgrounds in science, engineering, law, economics and public outreach headquartered in Boston, but located throughout the United States. CATF is recognized as one of the nation???s leading environmental organizations addressing air quality and atmospheric protection issues, and its work is widely respected in government and industry. CATF receives no industry funding. For more information about the Clean Air Task Force, see http://www.catf.us/




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