Gas Is Clean
Redefining clean energy
Gas is the fuel of choice in today's carbon-constrained world. Gasification is the cleanest, most flexible and reliable way of using fossil fuels, and provides the least-cost alternative for capturing carbon dioxide while producing energy. Most importantly, gasification offers a path to new energy development and environmental stewardship.
Synthetic natural gas produced at the Great Plains Synfuels Plant is a logical partner for clean, renewable fuels such as the wind farms being built by Basin Electric, Dakota Gas' parent company. Even the transport of gas via pipelines has given rise to a new technology that offers emissions-free energy from waste heat emissions at compressor stations along gas pipelines.
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Basin Electric, parent company of Dakota Gas, is building new power plants that run on gas produced at the Great Plains Synfuels Plant delivered via the Northern Border Pipeline: Groton Generation Station in South Dakota also runs on gas from the Northern Border Pipeline. |
Natural gas from the Great Plains Synfuels plant is transported through the Northern Border Pipeline which extends from Canada through seven U.S. states and provides another opportunity for generating emissions-free power: recovered energy generation. Several years ago, Basin Electric contracted to purchase all of the power from four natural gas-fueled turbines built by compressor stations along the pipeline. The exhaust temperature of these gas-fueled turbines is about 800-900 degrees F and that exhaust heat is recovered using heat exchangers in the exhaust stack. This recovered heat is then used to vaporize a fluid to drive the technology pioneered by OREG 2, a subsidiary of Ormat Technologies. Four more recovered energy generation stations will be completed in 2009.
Headquarters
1600 E. Interstate Ave.
PO Box 5540
Bismarck, ND 58506-5540 USA
Phone: 701.221.4400
Great Plains Synfuels Plant
420 County Road 26
Beulah, ND 58523-9400 USA
701.873.2100
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