Capturing Carbon from Existing Coal-Fired Power Plants

oal-fi red power plants generate about half of the electricity in the United States today, and will con-tinue to be a major source of energy for the fore-seeable future. The U.S. Dept. of Energy’s (DOE) Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that the nation’s 300+ gigawatts (GW) of coal-fi red electricity-generating capacity currently in operation will increase to more than 400 GW by 2030 (