Wisconsin Energy Carbon Sequestration and Offsets

• Our Pleasant Prairie Power Plant located in Kenosha, Wis., has been selected to host a first-of-its-kind project that demonstrates a new technology to separate and potentially capture 90 percent of the carbon dioxide (CO₂) in the flue gas from a coal-fueled power plant. This technology is expected to bring the cost of removing CO₂ from these power plants in line with the estimated cost of removal from proposed integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants. This process could be added to new or existing power plants.
  
  
• Wisconsin Energy is a partner in the Rio Bravo Carbon Sequestration Project to protect 65,000 acres of endangered rainforest in Belize. The project combines land acquisition and sustainable forestry and is expected to sequester approximately 2.4 million metric tons of carbon over 40 years.
  

• Wisconsin Energy is a participating member of the UtiliTree Carbon Company. UtiliTree is a consortium of 41 utilities organized by the Edison Electric Institute to invest in a portfolio of forestry projects that manage GHG emissions, particularly CO₂. A $3.2 million investment in eight domestic and two international projects will capture over 3 million tons of CO₂ over the life of these projects.
  
  
• Wisconsin Energy funds EPRI research to assess the potential of existing options for capturing and sequestering CO₂ emissions; evaluate methods for CO₂ capture and sequestration at the point of electricity generation; and investigate enhanced terrestrial or oceanic processes that remove and store atmospheric CO₂.
  
  
• See Wisconsin Energy Corporation's Performance Report (pdf) for more information about our greenhouse gas emission reduction initiatives. 
  

To view carbon sequestration and offsets programs of all BELC members, visit What's Being Done in the Business Community section of this site.