This MoU is one of the positive results of the efforts US and Chinese officials have recently put into bilateral talks on emission reductions before December`s UN climate talks over the past few months.

Meanwhile Duke Energy is engaged in building a 630 megawatt coal gasification plant in Indiana (to be finished in 2012) where the electric utility also conducts research on CCS as coal gasification produces a relatively pure stream of CO2.

China Huaneng on the other hand was the first one to build a CO2 capture demonstration project in China (Beijing) and is currently planning a larger-scale demonstration, to be operational by the end of 2009 in Shanghai.