---
title: "A Coal Plant That Buries Its Greenhouse Gases"
description: "The first commercial power plant to use carbon capture and sequestration shows the potential of a crucial technology."
date: "2014-12-11"
modified: "2014-12-11"
authors:
  - name: "Alex Klokus"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/alex-klokus"
url: "https://futurism.com/coal-plant-buries-greenhouse-gases"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
---

# A Coal Plant That Buries Its Greenhouse Gases

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/demo.2x622_0.jpg>)

- The plant demonstrates that so-called carbon capture and storage (CCS) can work at a large scale
- CCS-equipped coal plants could deliver electricity more cheaply than some other low-carbon sources, including offshore wind power and large solar farms
- The technology must also be proven to work over the long term. SaskPower buries some gas in a saline aquifer on its site. To make sure it stays put, the company has installed above-ground gas sensors plus a seismic sensing array to track subsurface movement.

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexklokus>)