Cane Run CCS

Cane Run Unit 7 is a 647-MW NGCC facility commissioned in 2015. The LG&E Cane Run #7 Carbon Capture Project is a large-scale post-combustion capture retrofit being evaluated at the Cane Run natural gas combined-cycle power plant near Louisville, Kentucky. The Front-End Engineering Design program targets capture of approximately 1.7 million metric tons of CO₂ per year at greater than 95 percent capture efficiency, with CO₂ conditioned for long-duration geological storage along the Ohio River corridor. The project is led by EPRI in partnership with Louisville Gas & Electric and Kentucky Utilities (PPL) as host operator, University of Kentucky as technology developer, and Bechtel providing FEED engineering. The capture system design uses a solvent-agnostic configuration optimized around an advanced aqueous amine process developed by the University of Kentucky, targeting improved heat integration, reduced steam extraction, and lower capital cost compared to conventional capture designs. The DOE-supported FEED program, running from late 2022 through mid-2024, produced a Class 3 cost estimate and full integration design