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Shelor first put the CSX Greenbrier project up for Round No. 4 of the DOE Clean Coal grants, counting on one advantage Otisca had lacked: built-in private funding. But despite solid science and engineering, the project was not one of the nine applicants selected last September. DOE had chosen to husband its funds for larger programs designed to produce new power-plant technologies for beyond the year...
...Shelor and CSX did not give up on Otisca. For the past few months they have been negotiating a deal that would take advantage of a small chink in the monopoly armor of big utilities: IPPS, independent power producers, which are allowed by Congress to produce electric power and sell it to utilities. IPPS are the junkyard dogs of the energy business, producing power any way they can under the rubric of cogeneration and operating without many of the constraints placed on public utilities...
...Cogen" plants produce power by burning oil, natural gas or coal, translated into electricity or steam. The CSX Greenbrier project was designed to burn both oil and Otisca Fuel to produce electricity for Virginia Electric & Power, the local utility. Even if they don't get federal assistance, Shelor hopes to build the Greenbrier plant. Alternatively, he and Smith are discussing a deal that would use coal wastes to make Otisca Fuel as a direct substitute for No. 6 fuel oil. The prospect of making money the old-fashioned way, by earning it through the sale of cogenerated power...
There are some other distant prospects. Poland, a country rich in dirty coal, sent a team to Syracuse in February to explore a deal with Otisca. They took a lot of notes and seemed interested, says Smith, but have yet to follow up. A representative of Pakistan has made inquiries. Markets in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have a lot of potential but not much prospect of immediate payoff. For Smith, who hasn't had a paycheck in two years, that's important...
...past, Otisca was approached by Japanese companies. "The Japanese have a ton of coal/water slurries," says Keller. "They're making it in Tokyo Bay and shipping it by the tankerload to the north islands." So why not sell out to the Japanese? "I'm very interested in having this be an American accomplishment," says Smith. "One of the purposes in my wanting to start a business was to show that the American thing can be done...