NET Power Receives Grant from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change to Support Development of Breakthrough, Clean Power Technology

NET Power Receives Grant from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change to Support Development of Breakthrough, Clean Power Technology PR Newswire DURHAM, North Carolina, Nov. 21, 2012 DURHAM, North Carolina, Nov. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- NET Power today announced the receipt of a £4.9 million grant from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change as part of the Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Innovation Program £20 Million Competition. The grant will fund further R&D and manufacturing of both developing and proven high-performance materials that enable NET Power's novel, clean, low-cost power generation technology to reach extremely high efficiencies. NET Power, Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502), a world-class technology manufacturer, Goodwin Steel Castings (LSE: GDWN), a global expert in metallurgy and castings based in the UK, and The Shaw Group (NYSE: SHAW), a leading engineering, procurement and construction firm, will utilize these advanced materials in NET Power's 25MW natural gas demonstration plant. "Through this competition and the CCS Commercialisation Programme, The Department of Energy and Climate Change is focused on making CCS more affordable, and they recognize NET Power's potential as a breakthrough technology," said NET Power CEO Bill Brown. "Our step-out process leaps over current CCS technologies by producing electricity that generates zero atmospheric emissions and is less expensive than cheap, carbon-emitting technologies.