ION Clean Energy joins team getting $5.8M federal grant for Nebraska project

BOULDER  — Ion Clean Energy Inc. will receive a cut of a $5.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to join a team designing an expanded carbon-capture system for Nebraska’s largest coal-fired power plant.

The Boulder clean energy company said in a press release that it’s leading a group of four other companies to complete a feasibility study to build a 600-megawatt carbon capture island at the Gerald Gentleman Station, a 1,365-megawatt coal plant in west-central Nebraska. The grant is coming from the National Energy Technology Laboratory in Pittsburgh.

Jennifer Atcheson, ION’s vice president…