9 November 2009-- Siemens Energy has been chosen to provide coal gasification technology for the 730 MW, $3.5 billion Taylorville Energy Center (TEC) in Illinois. The advanced coal generating plant is expected to be complete by 2014 and is expected to be one of the first commercial-scale, coal gasification plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) capability in the nation.

Tenaska, managing partner for the project, has signed equipment contracts and licensing agreements with Siemens for four gasifiers that will convert Illinois coal into substitute natural gas. The gas will be used for electricity generation or fed into the interstate natural gas pipeline system.

TEC's integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) technology also will capture and provide storage for at least 50 percent of carbon dioxide emissions.
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