Formed in 1999 and supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, the Super Computing Science Consortium (SC2) is a regional partnership of research and educational institutions in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, US. SC2 recently produced an extensive series of simulations of a coal-gasification technology known as a transport gasifier.

This work, with NETL-developed software called MFIX (Multiphase Flow with Interphase Exchanges) and PSC's LeMieux and BigBen systems, has allowed plant operators to scale up a transport gasifier for the Stanton Energy Center, a 285MW power plant nearing completion this year at Orlando, Florida. Once completed the plant will be the cleanest, most efficient coal-fired power plant in the world.

In 2006 the US-DOE awarded $235m to Southern Company, in partnership with the Orlando Utilities Commission and Kellogg, Brown and Root, to design and construct a fully integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power generation system at the Orlando Utilities Commission’s Stanton Energy Center in Florida. The technology which will be used at the Stanton Center is designed to use low-rank, high-moisture, and high-ash content coals which are usually available at lower costs. The total cost of the Stanton power plant project has been estimated at US$557 million.