(Source: Business Wire)
NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG) participated in the United States Climate
Action Partnership (USCAP) Clean Technology Showcase held today in
Washington, DC. Legislative staffers and Members of the US Senate were
able to learn about NRG's investments in nuclear, solar, biomass, clean
coal technology and other green energy technologies, including smart
grid technology.
"Climate change is the defining issue for our generation of American
leadership, and further delay in addressing this challenge will be
self-defeating in that it would require a severity of policy that would
be damaging to the American public in a way that addressing the
challenge now would not be," said David Crane, President and CEO, NRG
Energy, Inc. "Sound federal climate change legislation has many
important components but a bedrock principle of such legislation must be
that it will promote private sector investment in vital low and no
carbon technologies that will create new jobs and provide a foundation
for economic recovery. Legislation must also protect consumers,
vulnerable communities and businesses while ensuring economic
sustainability and environmental effectiveness."
NRG's no and low carbon initiatives include:
ABWR nuclear technologyNRG, along with Toshiba Corporation,
formed Nuclear Innovation North America (NINA) to bring proven Advanced
Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) technology to North America. NINA is
currently permitting two additional nuclear units at the South Texas
Project in Bay City, Texas. Expected to be online in 2016 and 2017,
these new units will produce 2,700 megawatts of carbon-free baseload
powerenough to support more than two million homeswhile offsetting
more than 21 million tons of greenhouse gases annually. For more
information, please visit www.nuclearinnovation.com.
SolarNRG is developing solar thermal power plants in California
and New Mexico using eSolar technology. This technology uses a field of
small, flat mirrors and a revolutionary calibration system to track the
sun during the day and then concentrate that sunlight onto a thermal
receiver mounted on 195-foot-high "power towers." The captured sunlight
heats water to produce high-pressure steam that powers a turbine
electric generator. Using solar thermal technology, NRG will produce
zero-emission, zero-fuel cost electricity that is coincident with peak
demand on the hottest summer days.
Carbon capture and sequestrationNRG's post-combustion carbon
capture and sequestration (CCS) demonstration project at WA Parish near
Houston, Texas, will be among the first of its kind and is expected to
begin operating in 2013.
