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Carbon capture and storage once seemed like a silver bullet to clean up polluting coal power – but it may be prohibitively expensive. American Electric Power just shuttered the first CCS pilot program but Mitsubishi has some even bigger plans in the pipeline.
The first carbon capture and storage project at a US power plant just ended. The pilot program in West Virginia proved the process could capture 90% of a power plant’s CO2 emissions. Host Bruce Gellerman asks American Electric Power CEO Mike Morris why they pulled the plug on the success. And Steve Holton, the business director of environmental systems development at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries explains why that company is beginning its own ambitious carbon capture program.