The World Comes To Wilsonville To Study Carbon Capture Technology

By Jo Alice Driggers

Researchers from countries as far away as China, Norway, India and Australia converged on the National Carbon Capture Center, next to Alabama Power’s Plant Gaston in Wilsonville, for a firsthand look at how the U.S. Department of Energy-sponsored test facility advances innovative fossil energy technology solutions.

The world experts in carbon capture and storage (CCS) were in Birmingham Sept. 5 for the fourth-annual Post-Combustion Capture Conference (PCCC4) of the International Energy Association Greenhouse Gas (IEAGHG) program. The UK-based collaborative serves as an impartial source on CCS technologies, and its members include 15 countries, the European commission, OPEC and 16 multinational sponsors.

The National Carbon Capture Center, which is managed and operated by Southern Company, works with third-party developers on technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from coal and natural gas power generation. “As part of our mission, we continually share information with other test centers, technology developers, universities and governments,” said Roxann Laird, National Carbon Capture Center director. “So it’s very common for our facility to host international guests, but the IEAGHG conference was a particularly large and distinguished group.”

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