American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy
- Headquarters: Alexandria, Virginia
- Presence in Texas: Amarillo
- Technologies they champion/innovate: IGCC, Coal-to-hydrogen
- Leadership: Brett Harvey, Chmn. (CONSOL Energy President & CEO)
- Foundation representative: Randy Erminger
- Year Company joined Foundation: 2004
The organization was founded as CEED in 1992 by the nation’s leading coal producers and railroad companies. Membership has grown from 35 initial members to nearly 200, and includes electricity producers, barge and trucking companies, equipment manufacturers and suppliers, labor unions, and others. In 2008 CEED changed its name to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity.
www.cleancoalusa.org
American Electric Power
- Headquarters: Columbus, Ohio
- Presence in Texas: AEP serves 373 communities and approximately 850,000 customers in Texas. Major cities AEP serves include Corpus Christi, Abilene, McAllen, Harlingen, San Angelo, Vernon, Victoria, and Laredo. AEP owns four natural gas and three coal-fired power plants in Texas.
- National fuel mix: Coal-73%, Natural Gas-16%, Nuclear-8%, Misc.-3%
- Technologies they champion/innovate: IGCC (Facilities in WV and OH in 2012 and 2017, respectively), Carbon capture, Coal Combustion
- Corporate Leadership: Michael G. Morris (Chairman & CEO)
- 2008 Earnings: $14.4B (Symbol: AEP)
- Foundation representative: Gary Gibbs (CCTFT Vice-Chairman)
- Year company joined Foundation: 2004
AEP was founded in 1906 as the American Gas & Electric Company. It acquired its first utility properties one year later. Utilities in its early years included electric service, gas, water, steam, transit, and ice service. In 1958, AG&E became American Electric Power. The company merged with Central and Southwest Corp. in 2000.
Today, AEP has the nation’s largest electric transmission system, spanning 39,000 miles. It is also one of America’s largest electric providers, delivering 38,000 megawatts of generating capacity to 11 states, including Texas.
www.aep.com
LCRA
- Headquarters: Austin
- Presence in Texas: 53 Counties
- Technologies they champion/innovate: Clean coal, Wind power, Biogas
- 2007 Earnings: $1.08 billion
- Corporate Leadership: Thomas G. Mason (General Manager)
- Foundation representative: Henry Eby
- Year Company joined Foundation: 2004
LCRA is a conservation and reclamation district that provides energy, water and community services to Texans in its service area. LCRA generates electricity and sells it wholesale to city-owned utilities and cooperatives that serve more than 1.1 million people. LCRA also builds and operates transmission projects through a nonprofit corporation, manages and protects the waters of the lower Colorado River, operates parks, and helps communities with economic development.
LCRA operates six hydroelectric dams, three natural gas facilities, and one coal-fired power plant. The company also purchases 116 megawatts of wind power from West Texas facilities.
www.lcra.org
The North American Coal Corporation
- Headquarters and regional offices: Dallas, Texas
- Presence in Texas: The Corporate headquarters is located in Dallas. It also has mining operations at its Hallsville (Sabine) and Jourdanton (San Miguel) locations.
- Technologies they champion/innovate: Land reclamation
- 2008 Earnings: $130.5 million
- Corporate Leadership: Robert L. Benson, President and Chief Executive Officer
- Foundation representative: Joel Trouart
- Year Company joined Foundation: 2004
The company was founded in 1913 as the Cleveland & Western Coal Company, a coal sales business in Chicago. In 1917, the company purchased its first coal mines in Ohio. It changed its name to The North American Coal Corporation in 1925. In 1985, the company diversified its operations and changed its name to NACCO Industries, Inc. in 1986. The North American Coal Corporation, a subsidiary of NACCO Industries, Inc. (NYSE:NC), mines and markets lignite coal primarily as fuel for power generation and provides selected value-added mining services for other natural resources companies. North American Coal currently operates mines in Texas, North Dakota, Louisiana, and Mississippi. It is the nation�s largest producer of lignite coal and one of the ten largest coal producers in the country.
www.nacoal.com
NRG
- Headquarters: NRG Energy: Princeton, NJ; NRG Texas: Houston
- Presence in Texas: Texas is the largest region in the NRG fleet with approximately 11,000 megawatts of generation, including coal, natural gas, nuclear and wind. NRG’s two coal plants in Texas include Limestone (1,690 MW) and W.A. Parish (2,460 MW), the single largest coal-powered facility in the state and one of the largest in the nation.
- Technologies they champion/innovate: NRG is making advances in numerous clean and cleaner coal plants in the nation. Through improvements at the current units, NRG will not only net emissions of SOx NOx and mercury at the site but will reduce these emissions following startup. NRG will also offset 50% of the carbon from the new unit and through air cooling will significantly reduce the water usage from the site. NRG is also supporting development of many clean coal technologies including a commercial-scale post-combustion carbon capture demonstration at the WA Parish plant and advancing the commercial use of plasma gasification and IGCC technologies.
- 2008 Earnings: $6.9B (Symbol: NRG)
- Corporate Leadership: NRG Energy: David Crane President & CEO); NRG Texas President: Kevin Howell
- Foundation representative: Mark Walker
- Year Company joined Foundation: 2008
A Fortune 500 company, NRG Energy, Inc. owns and operates a diverse portfolio of power generating facilities, primarily in Texas and the Northeast, South Central and West regions of the United States. NRG also has ownership interests in generating facilities in Australia and Germany. NRG is a member of USCAP, a diverse group of business and environmental organizations calling for mandatory legislation to achieve significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. NRG is also a founding member of “3C—Combat Climate Change,” a global initiative with companies calling on the global business community to take a leadership role in designing the road map to a low carbon society.
www.nrgenergy.com
Peabody
- Headquarters and regional offices: St. Louis, Missouri (headquarters); regional offices in Gillette, Wyoming and Evansville, Indiana
- Presence in Texas: The company ships coal to Texas.
- Technologies they champion/innovate: Land Reclamation (Early innovators); Btu Conversion and clean coal technologies (coal-to-liquid, coal-to-gas, carbon capture and storage
- 2008 Earnings: $6.6B (Symbol: BTU)
- Corporate Leadership: Gregory H. Boyce (Chairman & CEO)
- Foundation representative: Kelly Mader
- Year Company joined Foundation: 2007
The company was founded as a retail coal business in 1883 by 24-year-old Francis S. Peabody. In 1954 it merged with Sinclair Coal Co. but retained the Peabody name. In 1996, Peabody and UK-based Eastern Group joined to form The Energy Group plc. After a bidding war between PacifiCorp and Texas Utilities (later TXU) for The Energy Group in 1997, TU acquired Eastern and Peabody Group became independent. The company changed its name to Peabody in 2001.
Today Peabody is the world’s largest private-sector coal company. It supplies coal for 10 percent of America’s power and approximately two percent of the electricity worldwide. Peabody’s products and services reach 300 customer locations in nearly 40 American states and 18 countries on six continents worldwide.
www.peabody.com
Tenaska
- Headquarters: Omaha, Nebraska
- Presence in Texas: Tenaska has developed four generating plants in Texas and continues to own and operate two, Tenaska Frontier Generating Station near Shiro and Tenaska Gateway Generating Station near Mt. Enterprise. A third plant, the Tenaska Kiamichi Generating Station near Kiowa, Oklahoma, also supplies electricity into Texas. Tenaska’s power marketing company, Tenaska Power Services Co., is based in Arlington, along with Tenaska’s Business Development Group. Tenaska has more than 180 employees in Texas.
- Tenaska’s Trailblazer Energy Center, proposed near Sweetwater, would be the first new conventional coal-fuled power plant in the U.S. to use carbon management technology on a commercial scale. If built, the plant would be designed to capture 85 to 90 percent of the carbon dioxide (CO2) that would otherwise be released into the atmosphere. The CO2 would then be dehydrated, compressed and delivered via pipeline to West Texas oil fields for use in enhanced oil recovery. Fueled by low-sulfur coal and equipped with an efficient supercritical steam cycle for generation, the Trailblazer Energy Center would meet or emit less than all Texas and federal environmental standards. For more information about the Tenaska Trailblazer Energy Center, visit www.tenaskatrailblazer.com.
- Technologies they champion/innovate: Tenaska’s development efforts include clean coal technologies such as carbon capture and integrated gasification and combined cycle (IGCC) technologies.
- Tenaska was listed by the Natural Resources Defense Council in 2008 benchmarking studies as having the best record among companies in the U.S. that generate power from fossil fuels for controlling emissions of carbon dioxide and as one of the top performing companies for controlling emissions of nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide.
- 2008 Earnings: $16.0B gross revenues (Privately held)
- Corporate Leadership: Howard L. Hawks (Co-founder, Chairman and CEO)
- Foundation representative: Jeff James, Director Business Development & David Fiorelli, President and CEO – Business Development Group
- Year Company joined Foundation: 2008
Tenaska was founded in 1987. Fortune and Forbes magazines recently ranked Tenaska as the nation’s 25th and 26th largest privately-held company, respectively. The company has developed 9,000 MW of power generation and currently manages and owns in partnership with other companies 10 electric-generating facilities in six states and one foreign country, totaling 6,800 MW.
Tenaska affiliates also market natural gas, electric power and biofuels, with Tenaska’s natural gas marketing affiliate rated as one of the top ten natural gas marketers in North America. Tenaska’s electric power marketing company provides management and marketing services for approximately one-third of the wind generation market in Texas. Affiliates are also involved in private equity fund and acquisition management, fuel supply, gas transportation systems and electric transmission development.
www.tenaska.com
Texas Municipal Power Agency
- Headquarters: Carlos, Texas
- Presence in Texas: Carlos, Texas
- Technologies they champion/innovate: Clean coal, mine land reclamation
- Corporate Leadership: Gary T. Parsons (General Manager)
- Foundation representative: Jan K. Horbaczewski (Environmental Manager)
- Year Company joined Foundation: 2009
The Texas Municipal Power Agency (TMPA is a non-profit, joint action agency created by the Texas legislature in 1975 to provide reliable electric power to the four Member Cities of Byran, Denton, Garland, and Greenville. TMPA operates the Gibbons Creek Steam Electric Station, a coal-fired generating plant located in Grimes County, Texas with a net generating capability of 470 megawatts. Commercial generation began in October 1983. TMPA also owns and operates an electric transmission system located within the electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT).
www.texasmpa.org
Westmoreland Coal Company
- Headquarters and regional offices: Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Presence in Texas: Jewett Mine (Former FutureGen candidate)
- Technologies they champion/innovate: Technologically and Environmentally advanced surface lignite mining and reclamation
- 2008 Earnings: $509.6M (Symbol: WLB)
- Corporate Leadership: Keith E. Alessi (Chairman & CEO)
- Foundation representative: J. Denny Kingsley, P.E., VP Engineering & Environmental Services & Ches Blevins, Alternate Representative (CCTFT Treasurer)
- Year Company joined Foundation: 2004
Westmoreland Coal Company was founded in Pennsylvania in 1854. The completion of the Pennsylvania Railroad at that time was instrumental to the company’s creation, and all of the company’s founders were affiliated with the railroad to some degree. In 2001, the company acquired the Jewett, Texas mine, whose proximity helped make that community one of the four finalists for the FutureGen project.
Today, Westmoreland is the nation’s ninth-largest coal producer, with mining operations in Montana, North Dakota, and Texas. It also has eight independent power projects generating 867 megawatts of electricity.
www.westmoreland.com
