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JULY ENTRIES
Sweetwater Residents Attend Open House
July 27, 2010
About 200 people attended an open house at the Sweetwater Middle School gym the evening of July 26 to gain more information about the Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Center.
Tenaska engineers, environmental experts and other project management leaders staffed stations inside the gym on plans for the power plant and its technology. They provided information and answered questions about the carbon capture and storage features, plant technology, dry cooling, coal fuel, by-products management, emissions controls, power transmission, benefits to wind energy, enhanced oil recovery, jobs, economic benefits, and state and federal legislation.
From discussions with the Sweetwater area residents who attended, along with some from Abilene, the Tenaska officials were able to give straight answers to any concerns and misunderstandings held about Trailblazer and its relationship to the community. A number of those attending expressed satisfaction or at least indicated an interest in pursuing further information independently.
As one resident who owns land near the proposed Trailblazer site said in a quote in the Abilene Reporter-News: "I think the process is to take an open mind and listen to the facts and not take stuff out of context."
The open house was just one piece of an ongoing effort to communicate with area residents.
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Tenaska Chooses Fluor Carbon Capture Technology
July 26, 2010
Tenaska has chosen Fluor Corporation’s Econamine FG Plussm carbon capture technology for use in its proposed Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Center.
Econamine FG Plussm is a Fluor (NYSE: FLR) proprietary, amine-based technology for large-scale, post-combustion CO2 capture. The technology is one of the first and among the most widely applied commercial solutions proven in operating environments to remove CO2 from high-oxygen content flue gases.
“Fluor’s Econamine FG Plussm technology has been licensed at commercial scale in 26 industrial plants worldwide, including three in the United States,” said Michael Lebens, president of Tenaska’s Engineering & Operations Group. “The combination of Fluor’s expertise with the technology and its 20 years of experience in practical applications makes it the best choice for use at Trailblazer.”
Dave Dunning, president of Fluor’s Power Group, said the company is pleased that its technology has been chosen for the Trailblazer project. “Trailblazer represents an innovative environmental breakthrough in clean energy production that will have positive implications worldwide,” he said. “Fluor is eager to move forward and begin building this important new energy source for Tenaska and Texas.”
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Tenaska Again Ranked Among Best in Controlling Emissions
July 22, 2010
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has again ranked Tenaska among the best electric power producers in the United States in controlling air emissions.
Tenaska ranks among the best of the 100 largest producers that use fossil fuels to generate electricity, the NRDC found in 2010 benchmarking studies, released in June in a new report, “Benchmarking Air Emissions.” The study examined emissions in 2008 of carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrogen oxides (NOX) and sulfur dioxide (SO2).
Tenaska power plants achieved a top ranking by emitting only 50 percent of the U.S. fossil fuel plant average CO2 emissions, 8.5 percent of the average NOX emissions and just a 10th of 1 percent of average SO2 emissions. The latest findings for Tenaska are similar to those in the NRDC’s previous study, which was based on 2006 emission results.
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More information about the Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Center and illustrations for press use may be obtained at www.tenaskatrailblazer.com.
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