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Sector Check June 2014 | Construction Equipment Distribution | ZZZFHGPDJFRP| 43 operation worldwide, according to the Global CCS Institute. The two large-scale projects are expected to go online in 2014 are SaskPower's Boundary Dam project in Canada and Southern Company's Kemper County project in the U.S. These are of global significance because they are the first applications of CCS on coal-based power stations and will show CCS operating at commercial scale. "We don't have operational CCS experience yet on power plants," said Tomski. "We need to learn by doing to help drive down the cost and improve the performance." For the near future, dealers can continue to expect coal to be under pressure. But at the same time history tells us that energy demand, fuel costs and regulation can change on a dime. Economic growth, a new administration in the White House, or a favorable cost position for coal could once again make coal the "fuel du jour." JOANNE COSTIN is a freelance writer and marketing consultant focusing on the construction industry. She can be reached at (847) 358-1413 or jcostin@costincustom.com. Pulling the Trigger on Carbon Capture Mississippi Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, is building a 582-megawatt power plant in Kemper County, Miss., which will use innovative carbon capture technology called TRIG. The technology used at Kemper is expected to reduce 65 percent of the carbon dioxide emissions produced, making it equal to similarly-sized natural gas combined cycle plants. The plant, which is expected to begin commercial operation in the first half of 2015, will use a portion of Mississippi's 4-billion-ton reserve of lignite (low rank coal). The total cost of the project is $5.5 billion