The projects - FutureGen and Taylorville Energy Center - aspire to be among the most advanced, cleanest coal-fueled power plants in the world, proving that the nation's vast coal reserves can be put ...

ST. LOUIS -- The Energy Department likes the idea: Partnering with big power and coal companies to build a groundbreaking power plant in central Illinois that's virtually emissions-free, trapping ...

TUSCOLA – The chief executive officer of the FutureGen Alliance says all four finalists for his organization's project could be in line to get a clean-coal gasification plant if they pass ...

Three months ago, Crain's reported that the costs of the downstate clean-coal FutureGen plant were going out of control. Yesterday the consortium behind FutureGen admitted that was true: The estimate ...

FutureGen Alliance had planned — and still plans, according to officials Tuesday — to build a $1.8-billion power plant that would use near-zero emission technology, including long-term underground ...

(AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu says a futuristic coal-burning power plant slated for Illinois that languished under the previous administration has merit. A spokeswoman says Chu wants to work ...

(Reuters) — American Electric Power Company Inc. and Southern Co. each said on Thursday they were withdrawing from the FutureGen Alliance which plans to build a coal-fueled, commercial-scale carbon ...

MATTOON — Enthusiasm sparked by the announcement that Mattoon will be home to the FutureGen power plant quickly spilled from the former Time Theater to the surrounding downtown Tuesday morning.