Port Comfort Repowering Project

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Port Comfort Repowering Project is a cancelled power station in Point Comfort, Texas, United States.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details

Plant name Location Coordinates (WGS 84)
Port Comfort Repowering Project Point Comfort, Texas, United States 28.6716, -96.561093 (approximate)

The map below shows the approximate location of the power station.

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Project Details

Table 2: Unit-level details

Status Fuel(s) Capacity (MW) Technology
cancelled coal: unknown 303 CFB

Table 3: Unit-level ownership and operator details

Owner Parent
NuCoastal Power Corp [100%] NuCoastal Power Corp [100.0%]

Background

The Port Comfort plant was originally built by Central Power and Light in 1971. American Electric Power bought the plant years later, but shut it down in 2002. The plant was then purchased by Sempra Energy, and then by the Calhoun County Navigation District. NuCoastal Power Corporation, privately-owned energy company, signed a lease-to-purchase agreement with the navigation district, intending to repower the plant to burn petroleum coke and coal.[1][2]

In August 2007, Public Citizen and SEED reached an agreement with NuCoastal, under which they would drop their opposition to the plant in exchange for a commitment by the company to offset its mercury and carbon dioxide emissions – partially through purchasing mercury and CO2 credits.[3] The deal has been widely reported in the both U.S. and Europe, and is widely seen as precedent-setting for the emerging U.S. emissions trading markets.

In 2009, NuCoastal transferred ownership of the project to Calhoun Port Authority.[4]

In October 2011, Calhous Port Authority applied for a permit with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to construct a natural gas facility on the same site as the proposed pet coke plant. In February 2012, the air permit for the pet coke plant expired.[4]

Citizen Groups

Articles and Resources

References

  1. Nucoastal to Revive Shuttered Electric Plant, Houston Business Journal, March 4, 2005.
  2. Groups Challenge Proposed Power Plants' Emissions, Victoria Advocate, February 27, 2006.
  3. Environmental Groups and NuCoastal Power Announce Precedent-Setting Agreement, Public Citizen press release, August 9, 2007.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Stopping the Coal Rush," Sierra Club, accessed February 2013. (This is a Sierra Club list of new coal plant proposals.)

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