The Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a $12,500,000 Cooperative Agreement to Calpine Texas CCUS Holdings, LLC under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to construct and operate a post-combustion carbon capture system at the Baytown Energy Center. The project is expected to capture and sequester approximately 2 million metric tons of CO2 each year using Shell Catalysts & Technologies' Cansolv amine-based absorbent. The project will engage local and state stakeholders,...
The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $50,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to 1Pointfive P2 LLC to construct the South Texas Direct Air Capture (DAC) Hub in Kleberg County, Texas. The project aims to demonstrate DAC technology capable of removing up to 1,000,000 metric tons of CO2 per year from the atmosphere and safely storing it in a saline geologic reservoir. This effort will further validate the liquid sorbent DAC technology...
This $31,262,296 cooperative agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program, is aimed at demonstrating the feasibility of converting a mature oil and gas field in the Permian Basin into a dedicated carbon dioxide (CO2) storage facility. The key objectives of this project are: 1) to validate the subsurface characterization, storage capacity, and technical/economic...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development) awarded a $8,869,840 Cooperative Agreement to Calpine California CCUS Holdings LLC. The award supports a Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) study for a post-combustion carbon capture system at the Pastoria Energy Facility in Houston, TX. The project objective is to conduct this FEED study with the goal of advancing carbon capture technologies and reducing...
The U.S. Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program awarded a $3,709,032 Cooperative Agreement to the University of Illinois to complete a feasibility study for a regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) hub in Florida. The key objectives are to define the DAC hub organization, select technologies, assess life cycle emissions, identify safety/regulatory requirements, and develop financing, business, and community benefits plans. Planned sub-awards include...
The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $6,389,512 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Research Triangle Institute (RTI International) to design, build, and operate a solvent-based post-combustion carbon capture system at a pulp and paper mill facility in Vicksburg, Mississippi. The project aims to validate at least 90% carbon capture efficiency and 95% CO2 purity for at least 2,000 hours of continuous operation, achieving Technology Readiness...
The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management has awarded a $20,829,981 Cooperative Agreement to Carbon Capture Inc. for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law - The Northwest Louisiana Regional Direct Air Capture Hub project. This award, made under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA 81.089), will support research, development, and demonstration of innovative carbon capture technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and advance the transition to a...
The Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $200,000,000 Cooperative Agreement under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255) to Technip Energies USA, Inc. to execute the Sustainable Ethylene from CO2 Utilization with Renewable Energy (SECURE) project. The project aims to demonstrate an integrated process that utilizes captured carbon dioxide from ethylene production to create clean ethanol and ethylene using LanzaTech's gas fermentation technology and green hydrogen. The project...
This federal Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Clean Energy Demonstrations program (CFDA 81.255), supports the Project Tundra initiative to install carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology at the existing Milton R. Young Station, a lignite-fired power plant in North Dakota. The $4,199,672 award, dated September 30, 2024, will fund the demonstration of state-of-the-art CCS systems to capture at least 90% of the facility's CO2 emissions, with...
The University of Texas at Austin was awarded a $3,095,379 Cooperative Agreement from the Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program. The primary purpose of this 2-year project, titled "Texas Louisiana Carbon Management Community (TXLACMC)," is to provide stakeholders in the industrial corridor of Texas and Louisiana with critical information about carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology to help bridge cost, environmental, and public...