FutureGen

Meredosia Power Station
DOE FutureGen concept art c.2007
Location of FutureGen in Illinois, United States
Official name	FutureGen 2.0
Country	United States
Location	Morgan County, Illinois
Coordinates	39°49′23″N 90°33′58″W / 39.82306°N 90.56611°W / 39.82306; -90.56611Coordinates: 39°49′23″N 90°33′58″W / 39.82306°N 90.56611°W / 39.82306; -90.56611
Status	Under construction
Owner(s)	FutureGen Industrial Alliance, Inc
Thermal power station
Primary fuel	Coal
Power generation
Nameplate capacity	229 MW

FutureGen is a project (now suspended) to demonstrate capture and sequestration of waste carbon dioxide from a coal-fired electrical generating station. The project (renamed FutureGen 2.0) was retrofitting a shuttered coal-fired power plant in Meredosia, Illinois, with oxy-combustion generators. The waste CO₂ would be piped approximately 30 miles (48 km) to be sequestered in underground saline formations. FutureGen was a partnership between the United States government and an alliance of primarily coal-related corporations. Costs were estimated at US$1.65 billion, with $1.0 billion provided by the Federal Government.

Citing an inability to commit and spend the funds by deadlines in 2015, the Department of Energy withdrew funds and suspended FutureGen 2.0 in February, 2015. The government also cited the Alliance's inability to raise the requisite amount of private funding.

First announced by President George W. Bush in 2003, construction started in 2014 after restructuring, canceling, relocating, and restarting. FutureGen 2.0 still faces legal challenges.

FutureGen 2.0 is the most comprehensive Department of Energy Carbon Capture and Storage demonstration project, involving all phases from combustion to sequestration.

FutureGen's initial plan involved integrated gasification combined cycle technology to produce both electricity and hydrogen. Early in the project it was to be sited in Mattoon, IL.

The original incarnation of FutureGen was as a public-private partnership to build the world's first near zero-emissions coal-fueled power plant. The 275-megawatt plant would be intended to prove the feasibility of producing electricity and hydrogen from coal while capturing and permanently storing carbon dioxide underground. The Alliance intended to build the plant in Mattoon Township, Coles County, Illinois northwest of Mattoon, Illinois, subject to necessary approvals (issuing a “Record of Decision”) by the Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process.