carbon capture and utilization News
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AECOM and FMIS partner to create an energy hub for environment and water
AECOM, the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, has formed a partnership with FMIS (Fort McKay Industrial Solutions) to create an energy hub for engineering, environment, and water solutions in Northern Alberta. The agreement, which is already in effect, will provide a centralized source for energy operations within the region and will advance leading edge solutions to ...
By AECOM
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SwRI Receives U.S. DOE Award to Advance Clean Coal Technology
Southwest Research Institute and industry collaborator Thar Energy LLC have received $700,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy to demonstrate a novel, supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power cycle using pressurized oxy-combustion, a process that uses pure oxygen instead of air as the primary oxidant. The contract award is one of eight given by DOE to ...
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New Guidebook Outlines Opportunities for Low-Carbon Hydrogen Production from Coal and Biomass Resour
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) Center for Partnerships & Innovation today announced the release of a new guidebook through the NARUC-U.S. Department of Energy Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage Partnership. The publication provides a comprehensive review of the opportunities for low-carbon hydrogen production from coal and biomass resources. The Coal ...
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An industry first: SNC-Lavalin successfully integrates a commercial post-combustion CCUS system into a coal-fired power plant
SaskPower recently set a precedent when it fired up a commercial-grade carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) system at its Boundary Dam power plant in Saskatchewan. It’s the first time that a CCUS system of this size has ever been retrofitted into a coal-fired plant anywhere in the world. SNC-Lavalin was proud to provide complete EPC and training services for the project’s ...
By SNC-Lavalin
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Construction Work Progresses at Large-Scale Carbon Capture Demonstration Facility
On March 16th, Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS) successfully installed the absorber tower at the carbon capture demonstration facility construction site along the Mikawa Power Plant, which is operated by Toshiba ESS’s subsidiary SIGMA POWER Ariake Corporation, in Omuta city, Fukuoka, Japan. The tower, the largest structure in the carbon capture demonstration ...
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AGA Praises Bipartisan American Energy Innovation Act
The American Gas Association (AGA) praises the American Energy Innovation Act (S.2657) introduced by Chairman Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Ranking Member Joe Manchin (D-WV) of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. “Chairman Lisa Murkowski and Ranking Member Joe Manchin have put together a bill full of common-sense provisions that will help address climate change by ...
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U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Update
Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office (LPO) Senior Investment Officer Khalid Abedin spoke at the opening event for the U.S. Energy Association’s CCUS Road Show on January 28, 2020, in Washington, DC. LPO staff will be participating at future events in New Orleans (March 17) and Houston (April 21). LPO will also be presenting at the ...
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National Carbon Capture Center Surpasses 100,000 Hours of Technology Testing
The National Carbon Capture Center, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)-sponsored research facility managed and operated by Southern Company, announced it has surpassed 100,000 hours of technology testing. This milestone marks significant work by the internationally known test facility to accelerate the development of advanced technologies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from natural-gas and ...
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U.S. Department of Energy Coal FIRST Initiative Invests $80 Million in Net-Zero Carbon Electricity and Hydrogen Plants
This week the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy announced selection of four projects for cost-shared research and development under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA), DE-FOA-0002180, Design Development and System Integration Design Studies for Coal FIRST Concepts. When fully negotiated and awarded, it is estimated that approximately $80 million in federal funding will ...
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IEA Ministerial Meeting highlights Agency’s pivotal role in global energy governance
Global energy leaders met in Paris this week for the International Energy Agency’s Ministerial Meeting, a two-day event that underscored the IEA’s central role in global energy security and clean energy transitions. Michał Kurtyka, Poland’s Minister of Climate, chaired the meeting, which was attended by ministers and top government officials from the IEA ...
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DOE Announces $52.5 Million to Accelerate Progress in Clean Hydrogen
The U.S. Department of Energy this week announced $52.5 million to fund 31 projects to advance next-generation clean hydrogen technologies and support DOE's recently announced Hydrogen Energy Earthshot initiative to reduce the cost and accelerate breakthroughs in the clean hydrogen sector. Clean hydrogen is a form of renewable energy that if made cheaper and easier to produce can have a major ...
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GE Releases Position on Climate Change: Calls for Accelerated Deployment of Renewables & Gas Power To Drive Impactful, Faster Decarbonization
Building on its commitment to carbon neutrality in its operations by 2030 and announced intention to exit the new-build coal power market, GE recently (Dec 15) shared its position that the accelerated and strategic deployment of both renewable energy and gas power can make substantial progress in combatting climate change in the near-term, while securing a path to a lower-carbon emitting world in ...
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U.S. Secretary of Energy Advances America's Commitment to Reaching Net Zero at COP27
This week, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm traveled to Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt for the 27th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27). The Secretary joined the United States delegation at a critical moment for clean energy and global climate action, launching new partnerships and programs. Over the course of three days, the ...
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CONSOL Energy, VCCER Announce Research Project Aimed at Identifying Coal Seam Carbon Storage Alternatives
CONSOL Energy (NYSE: CNX) and the Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research (VCCER) at Virginia Tech announced today their collaborative efforts on a research project to be conducted in Buchanan County, Va., with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL). The project is one of the carbon storage alternatives being explored by the NETL and will ...
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U.S. Department of Energy Announces Clean Energy Achievements at COP28
This week, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy David M. Turk traveled to Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the 28th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), where he led the U.S. energy delegation. The Department of Energy announced a range of initiatives - on issues from clean hydrogen and nuclear energy to zero-emissions transportation and building ...
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Fact Sheet: President Obama To Announce Historic Carbon Pollution Standards For Power Plants
Today at the White House, President Obama and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy will release the final Clean Power Plan, a historic step in the Obama Administration’s fight against climate change. We have a moral obligation to leave our children a planet that’s not polluted or damaged. The effects of climate change are already being felt across the ...
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EPA`s Carbon Limits for New Power Plants Must Be ‘Grounded in Reality,` Industry Says
The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed carbon dioxide emissions limits for new fossil fuel-fired power plants should be reworked to be “grounded in reality,” an industry group said May 12. The proposed rule, formally issued in January, set separate standards for coal-fired and natural gas-fired generating units. The proposed performance standard for new coal-fired units would ...
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