Projects Under Development

Geoplasma's St. Lucie WTE Project

When completed, Geoplasma's WTE plant in Florida will be one of the largest plasma gasification facilities in the world, using WPC plasma gasification technology. Located on an existing landfill site, it will process up to 3,000 tons-per-day of MSW and producing 120 MW of electricity. The first phase will process 1,500 tons-per-day and produce 60 MW or enough electricity to power 60,000 homes.

• The only other output from the facility will be an inert slag which can be used for aggregate in road construction.

NRG Energy's Coal Retrofit Projects

NRG Energy Corporation (NRG) is the largest independent power produced in USA (US$ 10 billion market cap).

• NRG has exclusive access to WPC plasma technology
• NRG has identified numerous plants that are coming up to the end of their permitting life (over 350 power plants)

NRG's Somerset, Massachusetts coal-fired power plant will be the world's first plasma gasification retrofit to use WPC plasma gasification technology.

• Produce 120 MW electricity in Massachusetts
• There current permit expires in 2009
• Only a one year process for facility

"Power generation with Plasma Gasification reduces emissions far below conventional coal plants." – NRG Energy

Sun Energy WTE Project, New Orleans

Sun Energy is intending to build a large WTE facility in New Orleans that will use WPC plasma gasification technology to convert 2,500 tpd of garbage to electricity. The company has acquired a site located in the industrial sector of eastern New Orleans and is near completion of its environmental permit applications.

Sun Energy Project Site, New Orleans Regional Business Park

"We think it's a good technology, the actual process is really pretty good" said Karen Wimpelberg, board president of the Alliance for Affordable Energy, a consumer-focused group that has take a close look at the gasification process (Source: The Times Picayune, October 14, 2007)

Koochiching Development Authority (KDA) – Coronal WTE Project, International Falls, Minnesota

The Koochiching County, International Falls project will use approximately 100 tpd of municipal solid waste to produce a syngas which will be directed to a neighboring paper mill, reducing the mill's usage of natural gas. The WPC plasma gasification process will convert the MSW to syngas and a glass slag material which could be sold as a building aggregate, greatly reducing the amount of garbage Koochiching County and neighboring counties send to landfills. Coronal, the consulting and development firm for the project is currently coordinating a feasibility study to be completed as the first step in the project permitting process. Upon completion of the feasibility study, project permitting will begin mid-year 2008.

"I've studied this for a couple of years here and I'm very, very much in favor of this happening," said Kluess (Steve Kluess, Laurentian Resource and Conservation Development, US Department of Agriculture) "I can see the potential nationwide, North America wide for that matter, 20 or 30 years from now, as more and more facilities go off line and tipping fees go up, you'll see that this will be the way that municipal solid waste will be disposed of and taken care of in this country." (Sources: Minnesota Public Radio - July 31, 2006)

Green Power Systems, WTE project, Tallahassee, Florida

Renewable Fuels of Tallahassee LLC, a subsidiary of Jacksonville-based Green Power Systems LLC will install a system in Tallahassee to convert municipal solid waste into clean energy, including electricity.

Renewable Fuels will install a WPC designed plasma gasification system that uses WPC plasma torches to convert landfill waste into syngas, which will be cleaned prior to the boilers for a net electrical production of approximately 30 MWh.

Fuel Frontiers, Inc. (FFI), Muhlenberg County CTL Project, Kentucky

Fuel Frontiers, Inc. (FFI), through its parent corporation Nuclear Solutions, Inc., has contracted with Westinghouse Plasma Corporation (WPC) for the WPC Plasma Gasifier to be designed and incorporated in the FFI Muhlenberg County, Kentucky CTL (Coal-to-Liquid) Diesel Fuel Production Plant. The plant will operate at coal feedstock levels of 400 to 450 tons per day, producing in the range of 72 million gallons per year of ultra-clean diesel fuel. FFI has Letters of Intent from Phoenix Coal Corporation for plant locations for the CTL Ultra-Clean Synthetic Diesel production facility close to Phoenix Coal producing areas. At the same time, FFI has Letters of intent with Phoenix Coal for coal supply. FFI plans to work with Stone & Webster Ltd of Milton Keynes, England to do the design integration of the WPC Plasma Gasifier and the Fischer Tropsch system and to design the gas cleanup system and balance of plant systems.

Stone & Webster Ltd, in concert with WPC, will assist FFI in selecting the Fischer Tropsch system supplier. Stone & Webster Ltd and its parent corporation, Shaw Stone & Webster, will assist FFI in selecting the best plant site for the Diesel Fuel Production Plant. FFI anticipates plant startup in year 2010.