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Sulfur dioxide, commonly referred to as SO2, is produced in fossil plants during the coal combustion process. It is a contributor to the creation of acid rain.
Reducing SO2 emissions has long been a part of SCE&G’s emissions reduction program. Our Cope Plant, which came online in 1996, was designed and built with a dry scrubber to reduce SO2 emissions. The scrubber eliminates more than 95 percent of SO2, and, as a co-benefit, reduces mercury emissions by approximately 60-90 percent.
Wet scrubbers will be installed on our two largest plants by 2009 at a cost of more than $370 million. The impact on SO2 and mercury emissions will be similar to that at Cope.
A $9 million barge offloading and coal conveying facility is currently under construction at the Williams Station that will allow for the import of low-sulfur coal from suppliers from across the globe.
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