What does it take to get Steven “Coal is My Worst Nightmare” Chu and Mike “I Quite Like Coal” Morris singing from the same hymnal? A successful clean-coal project, it seems. Our colleague Becky Smith reports in The Wall Street Journal today that American Electric Power boss Mike Morris is thrilled by the early progress on its first carbon-capture project in West Virginia, which has “exceeded expectations.” Now, the sky’s the limit: As a result, he believes AEP will be able to retire 25% of its coal-burning power plants and install advanced carbon-capture equipment on the remaining 75%.
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Clean Coal: AEP Ups Expectations for Carbon Capture and Storage
