UCG is an active industry with a significant number of projects around the world that are either trialing technologies or beginning commercial levels of energy production or other products.
Power Generation only
- South Africa: Eskom, successful co-firing trial, 100-150 MW plant at FEED
- Pakistan : Cougar Energy, 100 MW planned, test burn in progress
- USA : Clean Global Energy, Oklahoma, 300 MW planned
- India : various projects at planning stage
- Chile : Carbon Energy, Mulpun, powergen (unspecified MW)
- New Zealand : Solid Energy, UCG trial
- Vietnam : Linc Energy, powergen in Song Hong (Red River) Delta
- USA : BP / GasTech, Powder River Basin 5 MW demo project
Other uses
- Europe : Wildhorse Energy, Hungary, powergen and SNG conversion
- USA : Laurus Energy, Alaska, powergen using CO2 for EOR
- Australia : Linc Energy, Queensland, GTL development
- China : Hebei Xin'ao Group, Mongolia: 100,000 tpa. Methanol
- Canada : Swanhill Synfuels, Alberta, successful UCG trial at 1400 metres followed by C$ 1.5bn powergen, EOR and CCS project start-up in 2015