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The Ohio Coal Development Office provided partial funding for the implementation of PowerSpan clean coal technology at the Burger Power Plant in Shadyside, OH.
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| Ohio’s current 2012-13 budget, as signed by the Governor on June 30, 2011, moves the Ohio Coal Development Office (OCDO) from the OAQDA, to the Ohio Department of Development (ODOD). During the transition, information on OCDO will remain on this site. In the future, a link to OCDO, as it appears on the ODOD Web site, will be provided here. |
The Ohio Coal Development Office (OCDO) is one of the nation’s most innovative clean
coal technology programs. Focused primarily on air pollution abatement in its early
days, OCDO partners with Ohio universities to spur groundbreaking research into some
of our state’s and nation’s most pressing environmental challenges.
For example, OCDO funding supports pioneering efforts to expand the use of coal far beyond electricity generation into projects such as converting coal to cleaner-burning fuels. OCDO research dollars also are driving research into finding ways to control and safely dispose of carbon dioxide. However, given that almost 90 percent of Ohio’s electricity is generated by coal, the importance of this most abundant resource to Ohio likely will not diminish in the foreseeable future.
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The Ohio Coal Development Office (OCDO) co-funds the research, development and deployment of technologies that can use Ohio's vast reserves of high sulfur coal within environmental limits. Its projects include technologies that improve combustion efficiencies, remove various pollutants from emissions such as sulfur and nitrogen oxides and air toxics, develop productive uses for the by-products of combustion, and investigate new uses for coal as a feedstock. OCDO projects frequently involve multiple project participants, such as the technology developer, a research institution, the federal government, and/or other private sector co-sponsors.
