DOE Tips its Hand Towards Coal-to-Gas Projects with New Funding

Written by Jesse Broehl for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is opening up a process to award funds to refurbish or modernize U.S. coal-fired power plants. However, in doing so, the DOE may be revealing--intentionally or not--a preference in transitioning coal to natural gas since two of the program's three areas of funding focus on fuel switching and co-firing between coal and natural gas.