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US restructures zero-emission programme, will invest $ 10 billion

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Posted: Jun 18, 2008 at 0312 hrs IST

Kolkata, June 17 As reduction in emission level occupies greater significance in view of the ongoing climate change, James L Connaughton, chairman of White House Council on Environmental Quality, confirmed his country’s plan to restructure zero-emission power plant and clean energy fund initiative.

Connaughton spoke about the US call to all its partner countries for greater participation in the Future Gen project at an interactive session on energy security and climate change. Under the Future Gen project, the US plans to build zero-emission coal power plants to reduce emission of greenhouse gases.

Under this project, initially one power plant was to be developed with an investment of $1 billion. ONGC, Coal India Ltd and NTPC were the stakeholders in the project.

Connaughton said the US would now restructure the project by building two to three large commercial power plants that will incur an investment of $10 billion. The project will use the cutting-edge carbon capture and storage technology.

“Every country should endeavour to adopt cleaner technology and a shared vision of a long-term global goal,” said Connaughton.

“Dozens of such zero-emission plants are needed across the globe to bring down the level of carbon dioxide and greenhouse gases,” he added.

Connaughton said the Indian companies would also be able to access resources from clean energy fund initiated by US within the next three years. “The fund is aimed at assisting green power plants and renewable energy projects. The US government will provide $2 billion, which is 20 per cent of the total corpus. We also expect the G-8 countries to contribute to the fund. The UK and Japan have already pledged to contribute $3 billion,” said Connaughton.

The US has set aside $50 billion for developing low carbon technologies and $43 billion to build nuclear power to meet future energy demand.

According to experts, by 2030 world’s energy needs would be almost 50 per cent more than the last year. India, one of the fastest growing economies in the world, is expected to see an increase in its energy demand by over 150 per cent between 2000 and 2030.

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