The FutureGen Industrial Alliance announced this week that PPL Corp has joined the non-profit consortium of global electric utilities and coal companies working with the U.S. Department of Energy to site and develop FutureGen, an advanced clean coal power plant.

Other Pennsylvania related members include CONSOL Energy and Foundation Coal.

PPL becomes the tenth member of the alliance, which is leading design, construction and operation of the first “zero-emissions” coal-fueled power plant and hydrogen production facility with integrated carbon capture and sequestration.

PPL, headquartered in Allentown, controls about 12,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States, sells energy in key U.S. markets and delivers electricity to more than 5 million customers in Pennsylvania, the United Kingdom and Latin America.

The alliance has issued a siting proposal and received 12 project bids from seven states to host FutureGen, a public-private project which will utilize coal gasification technology to reduce emissions.

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5/26/2006