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A New Mexico startup isn’t abandoning efforts to install carbon capture technology on a coal-fired power plant in the state — even after its first attempt flopped.
Enchant Energy Corp. is pursuing a retrofit of the Four Corners plant on the Navajo Nation, less than 15 miles from the now-closed San Juan Generating Station, which the company failed to keep open last year.
The bid arrives amid a heated debate over EPA’s proposed power plant rules and whether carbon capture and storage (CCS) is adequately demonstrated on fossil fuel generation. Currently, there are no commercial-scale CCS projects operating in the U.S. power sector, even though EPA’s proposal considers the technology to be a chief option to keep certain gas and coal plants online past 2040. The Biden administration is aiming to decarbonize the grid by 2035.
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