Three years of vying for the location of the FutureGen energy development project may not have been in vain as a private company is now looking for a place in Texas to develop a similar energy plant, officials said Tuesday.
Colorado-based company Summit Power Group announced this month it plans to build a site in Texas to utilize the same clean coal technology the FutureGen project would have used, and officials say the Permian Basin is a contender for the project.
"We know they're going to build," said Hoxie Smith, director of Midland College's Petroleum Professional Development Center, at a presentation to the Society for Sedimentary Geology Tuesday. "We want them to come here."
Officials say they hope FutureGen efforts not wasted
