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The '''Secure Energy Decatur Gasification Plant''' is a proposed coal to natural gas plant planned for Decatur, Illinois. "The plant will convert up to 1.4 million tons per year of high-sulfur Illinois coal into pipeline quality natural gas," the company states. [[Secure Energy]] is a St. Louis, Missouri-based company "focusing on coal conversion technologies".<ref>[http://www.decaturedc.com/content/view/65/34/ Illinois EP Issues Air Permit for the Construction of the Secure Energy Decatur Gasification Plant]", accessed December 2007.</ref>.
The Illinois EPA issued an air permit in April 2007, and the plant is scheduled to be operational in 2009. The company has placed orders with Siemens turbines and has entered into coal contracts. However, Rob Day’s “Cleantechcollective” blog reported on 8/27/07 that Secure Energy had raised $5.5 million of a targeted of a targeted $8 million round of financing. <ref>[http://www.cleantechcollective.com/blog/robday/site/posts/?bid=15764Cleantech Collective] </ref>.
==Project Details==
*National Energy Tech Lab, [http://tinyurl.com/37a5ue “Tracking New Coal-Fired Power Plants,”] NETL, May 1, 2007, page 10 (Pdf)
*Sierra Club, [http://www.sierraclub.org/environmentallaw/coal/plantlist.asp "Stopping the Coal Rush"], accessed December 2007. (This is a Sierra Club list of new coal plant proposals).
*Secure Energy press release, [http://www.secureenergyinc.com/press-071907-international-coal-group.htmlInternational Coal Group to Supply Coal for the Secure Energy Decatur, Illinois Gasification Plant]
[[category:United States]][[category:Energy]][[Category:Illinois proposed coal plants]][[Category:US proposed coal plants]]
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