The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) on Monday announced more than $23 million in technology transfer and knowledge sharing funding to advance the deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) solutions. , increasing total grants to nearly $800 million by 2021.
The funding, called the Regional Initiative to Accelerate the Deployment of Carbon Management, is intended to help ensure the country maintains “secure, affordable and environmentally sound fossil energy supplies,” according to the DOE. It was launched in 2019 under the department’s Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM).
“With the selections announced today, FECM has invested more than $777 million in more than 100 projects since January 2021 that advance the research, development and deployment of carbon capture, transport and storage approaches,” he said the DOE in a press release.
“This progress is essential to help drive economic development, technological innovation and high-wage jobs as we build a clean energy and industrial economy.”
In the latest release, 16 projects in 14 states have been selected for a total of $23.4 million “to provide locally tailored technical assistance and enhanced stakeholder engagement around carbon management technologies.”
Projects relate to technical assistance, public engagement and geological research, and focus on communities affected by carbon management projects.
Carbon Solutions LLC has been awarded $2.5 million to assist with planning for the WyoTCH Project, a CCS facility in Wyoming with a capacity of up to 25 million tons of carbon dioxide per year. The funding is specifically for the design of a roadmap that would “enable stakeholders to visualize and analyze hundreds or thousands of carbon management infrastructure scenarios, identifying key thresholds for policies, investments and risks to determine how this information can be used to develop a robust system. business case,” the DOE said.
Another $2.5 million has gone to the University of North Dakota to help it “provide technical assistance and engagement with a future large-scale carbon management storage center, with a strong emphasis on activities of public participation, environmental justice analysis and social science research that will support a better understanding of the social landscape of the region where the hub would be developed”.
The New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology has been awarded the second-largest share of just under $2.5 million to accelerate the launch of a carbon management center in the Four Corners region by gaining support of the locals through participation.
The Battelle Memorial Institute has also earmarked about $2.5 million for the establishment of “a base for a carbon management center along the Mid-Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf from from Northern Virginia to Massachusetts to help meet regional decarbonization goals set by states, communities and industry.” .
The University of Texas has committed nearly $2.49 million to the formation of “a stakeholder community that will provide accurate and reliable information on carbon management as an emissions mitigation option for the hundreds of sources of CO2 emissions from the industrial and electrical sector”.
Oklahoma State University has won nearly $1.36 million in pre-construction and public engagement for a project to build carbon management infrastructure in the Anadarko Basin.
The Alaska Department of Natural Resources has been awarded $1 million “to assess and provide relevant data using the Alaska Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Database to an emerging carbon management industry with the goal of ‘accelerate the development and implementation of CO2 storage in the Cook Inlet. Region of Alaska’.
Among projects related to geological work, Indiana University has also received $1 million as the lead recipient in this area of concern. The funding is for a project “to identify favorable areas in Indiana that can support commercial-scale carbon management centers to accelerate technology adoption, focusing on multiple Cambrian-age salt deposits and the Ordovician at ideal depths to sequester carbon”.
The other recipients of projects related to geological research are the University of Oklahoma ($999,994), the University of Illinois ($999,985), the University of Wyoming ($998,968), the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources ( $998,015), the Geological Survey of Alabama ($958,735), the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology ($906,965), the Geological Survey of Utah ($892,683), and Western Michigan University ($862,117) .
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