NRG Energy has submitted a Clean Coal Power Initiative application to the US Department of Energy to build a post- combustion carbon capture demonstration unit at the Company's WA Parish plant in southwest Houston, Texas. NRG's carbon capture demonstration project will be among the first of its kind and is expected to begin operating in 2013. The project will use Fluor Corporation's Econamine FG Plus technology to process flue gas from the plant equal in quantity to that of a 60 MW unit.

The demonstration plant will be designed to capture 90 per cent of incoming CO2, or just under 500 000 tons. Once captured, the CO2 will be compressed using Ramgen/Dresser-Rand technology and used in enhanced oilfield recovery operations, becoming a revenue stream to offset a portion of the cost of the project.

Sargent & Lundy LLC is providing engineering support for the project, including innovative approaches to managing the energy requirements of the carbon capture technology.

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