At the Tuesday, December 10 Committee of the Whole meeting of the Springfield City Council CWLP has scheduled representatives from the University of Illinois' Prairie Research Institute to provide updates on a number of US Department of Energy research projects underway at the utility.
Dr. Kevin OBrien, Director of the Net-Zero Center of Excellence and the Illinois Sustainable Technology Center at the Prairie Research Institute, will discuss the innovative carbon capture initiatives at Dallman Unit 4 that include a large-scale pilot of carbon capture technology, positioning Illinois as a leader in carbon capture research; and Nathan Webb, Principal Research Scientist and Head of the Subsurface Energy Resources Section at the Illinois State Geological Survey, will give a brief introduction of the CarbonSAFE project.
City Council meetings are held at on the third floor of Municipal Center West at 300 S. Seventh Street and begin at 5:30 p.m. You can watch:
• Locally on Comcast Cable Channel 18 and AT&T U-verse Channel 99.
• Stream the meeting on the City's
website • Stream the meeting on the City's
YouTube Channel. (On Tuesday evenings, a "Live" box will appear before the first section of videos.)
