The milestone follows last’s month’s generation of electricity for the first time from its other gasifer of the 582MW Kemper Project.
To generate the power, the plant used a combination of clean synthetic gas, which is produced from Mississippi lignite coal, and natural gas.
Mississippi Power chairman, president and CEO Anthony L. Wilson said: “This is a substantial step forward for the project.
“We are now closer to integrating all of the systems at the facility to deliver on our mission to provide clean, reliable energy for our customers. I cannot be happier with this step in the process.”
Earlier this month, Mississippi Power revealed that it was completing maintenance on the first gasifier at the plant. This was after more than a month of successful production of synthetic gas or syngas as well as the first electricity generation from the plant using it.
The remaining part of the project include carbon capture technologies and integration all the systems needed for combustion turbines to simultaneously generate electricity with syngas.
The power plant is expected to be commissioned on 31 December.
Upon completion, the project will be the first large-scale power plant in the US to gasify coal and capture carbon, Bloomberg reported.
The project received a funding of $245m from the US Department of Energy.
Image: Mississippi Power’s IGCC power plant in Kemper County, Mississippi. Photo: courtesy of Mississippi Power.
