↑ "AEP Proposes Clean Coal Project in W.Va." The State Journal, August 27, 2009.↑ Department of Water and Waste Management, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection.↑ "SCC says no to new APCO power plant and rate hike,", April 14, 2008.↑ “Hearings on Coal-Fired Plant to Begin,” Charleston Daily Mail, December 5, 2007.
(This is a Sierra Club list of new coal plant proposals.) ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Stopping the Coal Rush", Sierra Club, accessed January 2007.↑ 2.0 2.1 “Appalachian Power Signals Partial Compromise on Power Plant,” Huntington Herald-Dispatch, December 10, 2007.↑ "Appalachian Power Company Description" Hoover's Website, September 2009.The rating applies to sites at which a dam failure would most likely cause loss of human life, but does not assess of the likelihood of such an event. Amos Plant's "High Hazard" Surface ImpoundmentĪmos Plant's Fly Ash Pond surface impoundment is on the EPA's official June 2009 list of Coal Combustion Residue (CCR) Surface Impoundments with High Hazard Potential Ratings. Īmos Plant ranked number 41 on the list, with 864,024 pounds of coal combustion waste released to surface impoundments in 2006.
The data came from the EPA's Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) for 2006, the most recent year available. In January 2009, Sue Sturgis of the Institute of Southern Studies compiled a list of the 100 most polluting coal plants in the United States in terms of coal combustion waste (CCW) stored in surface impoundments like the one involved in the TVA Kingston Fossil Plant coal ash spill. Amos ranked 41st on list of most polluting power plants in terms of coal waste To recover the costs AEP proposes that West Virginia electricity rates will increase by approximately 12% by 2012. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Clean Coal Power Initiative, which according to the DOE Web site is offering up to $1.4 billion to applicants who will share at least 50 percent of the cost of their projects. AEP proposes that the commercial-scale project would capture 90 percent of the CO2 from 235 megawatts, or about 20 percent of the plant's 1,300-megawatt capacity, and would again inject it underground. In August 2009 AEP announced that it is seeking $334 million in federal stimulus funds for the Mountaineer plant to become the site of the nation's first commercial-scale carbon dioxide capture and storage system. If approved, the permit would allow AEP to inject and permanently store carbon dioxide through injection wells into the subsurface located in Mason County. In December 2008, AEP applied for a Class 5 Underground Injection Control Permit from the West Virginia DEP. The SCC said that AEP's cost of $2.33 billion, which had not been revised since November, 2006, and was therefore "not credible." In April, 2008, the West Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) rejected the plant in West Virginia as well as a rate hike to help pay for it. 10, AEP agreed to potentially cap construction costs. Project costs have risen from $1.2 billion to $2.2 billion, and AEP wants ratepayers to pay for part of this increase at hearings, consumer advocate groups have argued against the project. On June 18, 2007, AEP filed an application with the state Public Service Commission hearings on this application began Dec. 2007, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection estimated a draft permit would be released in two to three months. 2007, AEP announced it would delay building the plants for six months due to rising material and labor costs. 2006, AEP filed an air permit application with the state Department of Environmental Protection. It would be essentially the same as the Great Bend IGCC plant proposed for Meigs County, Ohio. The Mountaineer IGCC plant would be built next to the existing Mountaineer generating station along the Ohio River in Mason County, West Virginia.
3 Amos ranked 41st on list of most polluting power plants in terms of coal waste.