Meredosia, IL: 1948,1960-2011 354mw Ameren Power Plant

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"354 MW (Megawatts): 58 MW (1948), 58 MW (1949), 239 MW (1960)....On February 28, 2011, FutureGen Alliance announced Morgan County, Illinois, will house the $1.3 billion underground carbon dioxide storage facility for the coal gasification plant FutureGen 2.0. An estimated 32-miles of pipeline will also be constructed to pump the plant’s carbon dioxide emissions into the 4,500-foot deep underground site located north of Interstate 72 and west of County Highway 123. FutureGen Alliance claims the site could permanently store more than 1.3 million tons of carbon dioxide each year." The plant was closed because of the "Clean Air Transport Rule" EPA rule. [gem]

Street View, Jul 2012

This building replaced a building that had four smaller units.

Richard Mead posted via Dennis DeBruler
John Sutherland commented on the Wabash Bridge notes on May 27, 2020:
"The Meredosia Power Plant retained the 4 older boilers, they were trucked into the larger concrete stack in the present building. I believe this was when the white stack was added in the 1950s, which served an additional two boilers. The original 4 boilers served two turbines and the additional two added in the 1950s served a single turbine. The steel-frame expansion to the right of the white stack housed a single oil-fired boiler which served an additional turbine added in 1973 I believe. This 1973 unit is labeled as "unit 4" and the turbine had been partially dismantled in 2014 after the plant was decommissioned for the FutureGen 2.0 project. All other older turbines are currently bieng dismantled as part of the remediation and re-purposing of the plant by Commercial Development Co."

Carlton Crasher posted 23 photos with the comment: "Ameren Meredosia, IL. December 2020."

Gary Diefendorff: I was the B&W Project Engineer for the environmental control equipment when we were designing the plant for the DOE FutureGen 2.0 carbon capture project before it was cancelled.

https://fossil.energy.gov/futuregen

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Jackson Harrington commented on Carlton's post
2021

Back in 2011 it still had its storage pile and ash ponds. The Wabash Railroad used to cross the Illinois River just north of this plant. Even though the Wabash went right past this plant, it was not rail served. It got its coal from barges from Illinois mines. That would explain why the EPA sulfur emissions rule killed this small plant. The pile looks empty in the next available image, Jul 2012.

Google Earth, Nov 2011

bizjournals for photo and cdcco for information
John's comment above indicates that the Commercial Development Company had started on the repurposing of the land in 2020.

The plant was used in 2009 to test a new method for producing activated carbon, which is used to remove mercury from the flue gas. [epri]