China and the United States is the country's largest coal energy users in the world. Growth of industrial sector in both countries is causing the energy use of coal increased in both countries.Increased use of coal as an energy source to make the two countries plan to use coal technology and the exploration of coal as an environmentally friendly energy.
Meeting of leaders of both countries, Barack Obama and Hu Jintao called on all mining and energy development company that sourced from coal to find solutions that clean coal technology. The agreement committed both countries to develop clean coal technology, called "'21st Century Coal".
The announcement the president of what is called "21st Century Coal" consists of a variety of partnerships:
- Some of the partnerships seeking cost effective ways to reduce the synthetic gas from coal. General Electric, for example, will continue its joint venture with Shenhua Group to develop technologies and business models related to coal gasification. United States Trade and Development Agency will also support a feasibility study of integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plant in China that will use technology developed in cooperation with the U.S. China Power Engineering and Consulting Group.
- In another project, St. Louis-based Peabody Energy is a coalition working with energy companies in China GreenGen, a project to develop "near-zero emissions coal power plant," according to DOE.
- A partnership between a subsidiary of AES and Shenzhen Dongjiang Environmental Recycling Songzao Electric Power and Coal and tried to use the methane recovered from coal mines to generate electricity.
- Two others involve the U.S. National Energy Technology Laboratory studied the feasibility of carbon capture and storage, or CCS, coal-based facilities in China in cooperation with Shenhua Group and Shaanxi Institute of Energy Resources and Chemical Engineering.
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