Cooperative Agreement DEFE0032156

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's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois a $5 million cooperative agreement under the Fossil Energy Research and Development program (CFDA #81.089). The award will support the project "Direct Air Capture-Based Carbon Dioxide Removal with United States Low-Carbon Energy and Sinks" from October 1, 2021 through December 31, 2023. Under this cooperative agreement, the University of Illinois will...

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. The project aims to remove up to 1,000,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year from the atmosphere and safely store it in a saline geologic reservoir. This effort will further demonstrate commercial-scale DAC technology developed by Carbon Engineering, an affiliate of 1Pointfive,...

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management awarded a $3,829,387.00 Cooperative Agreement to Northwestern University on May 1, 2024 under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) federal grant program. The objective of this project is to leverage cross-sectoral expertise to determine the feasibility of developing a scalable direct air capture hub in the Midwest. This will be achieved through intensive collaboration across industry and research...

This Cooperative Agreement award, with a total funding amount of $3,909,166.00, is provided by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under the Conservation Research and Development program (CFDA 81.086). The overall objective is to complete a feasibility study for a regional Direct Air Capture (DAC) hub encompassing Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky. The study will be executed in two phases: Phase 0A to complete a pre-feasibility study, and Phase 0B to complete the full feasibility study. Key...

This $23,659,268 Cooperative Agreement was 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) federal grant program. The objective of this 2-year project is to advance the development of a direct air capture (DAC) hub in the Southern San Joaquin Valley of California by designing, engineering, and planning an integrated DAC system. The awardee is the Electric Power Research Institute Inc....

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management 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. The award, with a performance period from January 2, 2025 to January 1, 2027, is funded under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) federal grant program. The project aims to advance clean energy technologies and reduce...

The Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management has awarded a $20,484,466 Cooperative Agreement to the Southern States Energy Board under the Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program. The goal of this award, titled the "Southeast Direct Air Capture (SEDAC) Hub," is to establish the groundwork necessary to support broad direct air capture (DAC) technology deployment in Mobile County, Alabama. The award has a performance period from October 1,...

The $25,692,265 Illinois Basin West CarbonSAFE Phase III Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (CFDA 81.089 - Fossil Energy Research and Development), aims to geologically characterize the Cambrian Mt. Simon Sandstone/Eau Claire Formation storage complex near the Dallman Power Generation Plant in Springfield, Illinois. The key objectives include acquiring seismic profiles, drilling a stratigraphic test well, completing the...

This $1,499,999 federal Project Grant award from the Department of Energy's Fossil Energy Research and Development (CFDA 81.089) program aims to develop a visiting scholar program focused on advancing highly-scalable and efficient sorption materials for direct air capture (DAC) technologies. The project, led by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, will establish a program with two host institutions and four partner minority-serving institutions to educate and train 4-6 minority...