ENVIRONMENTALISTS SAY AEP PROPOSAL WILL BOOST COAL GASIFICATION

September 9, 2004
Environmentalists say a pledge by American Electric Power (AEP) that it will build at least one coal gasification power plant within the next decade may provide critics of proposed traditional coal-fired plants ammunition in pressing regulators to require the utility industry to consider the newer technology. An August announcement by the company suggests the cost of building gasification projects could be less than the estimated cost of one such plan rejected last year by Wisconsin regulators on cost grounds, one...


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