The new generating stations, which will be powered with natural gas-fired plant technology, will be able to capture up to 90% of the carbon dioxide (CO2) that could have been emitted.
A typical gas-fired plant, powered with carbon capture technology, developed by Summit and Linde will produce 250MW of electricity, and capture up to 750,000t of CO2 each year.
The two companies have already identified several suitable US locations for the new power plants where suitable geological sequestration sites are available for the injection of CO2 underground.
Linde Group executive board member Dr. Aldo Belloni stated that only increasing reliance on natural gas is not a sufficient strategy to reduce carbon.
"It is still necessary, valuable, and eminently feasible to capture and geologically sequester the carbon dioxide that natural gas-fired plants would otherwise emit, just as it is with coal-based plants," Belloni added.
Summit chairman emeritus and former US Energy Secretary Donald Paul Hodel said, "Technology is ready to capture the CO2 that gas-fired power plants produce, and Summit, in partnership with Linde, is ready to develop those plants, just as Summit has developed thousands of megawatts of conventional gas-fired power plants in the past."
