carbon capture project News
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New CO2CRC carbon capture project commissioned
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) research has taken a major step forward with the commissioning of Australia’s most comprehensive post-combustion carbon dioxide (CO2) capture research facility, the CO2CRC H3 Capture Project, at International Power’s Hazelwood Power Station in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley. The project was launched by Victorian Energy and Resources Minister Peter Batchelor ...
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Capital Power Advances Carbon Capture Project at Genesee
Capital Power Corporation has partnered with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Group and Kiewit Energy Group on a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study for the Genesee CCS Project, advancing the commercial application of carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) technology at its Genesee Generating Station in Alberta. "We're excited to collaborate with MHI Group and Kiewit to advance our Genesee ...
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€300m in Euro Funding for UK Carbon Capture Project
A UK carbon storage project that would support up to 2,000 jobs and provide clean electricity to more than 630,000 homes today received a funding boost of €300m from the European Commission. The White Rose project, based at Britain’s largest coal-fired power station, the Drax plant in Yorkshire, is one of Europe’s first carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects. When built, the ...
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DOE awards $84M for 18 carbon-capture projects
The Energy Department said Thursday it has awarded $84 million to 18 projects across the country to help limit carbon dioxide emissions from coal-fired power plants. The projects focus on so-called carbon-capture technologies intended to limit pollution blamed for global warming. "Coal and other fossil fuels still provide 80 percent of our energy, 70 percent of our electricity and will be a ...
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QLD carbon capture project to help tackle climate change
In a first for Queensland, CSIRO and Tarong Energy today announced a A$5 million joint pilot project to capture greenhouse gases. The project will see the installation of a post-combustion capture (PCC) pilot plant at Tarong Power Station, 45km south of Kingaroy. The pilot plant is designed to capture 1500 tonnes per annum of CO2 from the power station and is part of a broader research program ...
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World’s Largest Post-Combustion Carbon Capture Project Begins Construction
Today, the Department of Energy – in partnership with NRG Energy Inc. and JX Nippon – announced that construction has begun on the first commercial-scale post-combustion carbon capture retrofit project in the U.S., the largest such project in the world. The Petra Nova Project will use this cutting edge technology to help decrease the power plant’s greenhouse gas emissions. Once ...
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DOE awards US$71m to accelerate innovative carbon capture project
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that Arizona Public Service (APS), Phoenix, Ariz., has been awarded $70.5 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to expand an existing industrial and innovative reuse carbon mitigation project. Arizona Public Service’s ongoing algae-based carbon mitigation project, previously selected via competitive solicitation, will be ...
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Linde Wins U.S. Dept. Of Energy Grants for Carbon Capture Projects
Linde North America Inc., in partnership with the University of Illinois, has won two U.S. Department of Energy grants to research and improve technologies to capture carbon emissions from power plants.The grants provide a total of $3.65 million in federal funding for the two projects, both of which began in April, and which are the first step in deploying the technology at a large pilot ...
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DOE awards cooperative agreement for post-combustion carbon capture project
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a cooperative agreement to American Electric Power Service Corporation (AEP) for the Mountaineer Commercial Scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project to design, construct, and operate a system that will capture and store approximately 1.5 million tons per year of carbon dioxide (CO2). The project was a third round selection under DOE’s Clean Coal ...
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Construction Begins on DOE-Sponsored Carbon-Capture Project at Kentucky Power Plant
Today, construction began on an innovative $19.5 million carbon-capture pilot, funded in part by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), at Kentucky Utilities’ E.W. Brown Generating Station near Harrodsburg, Kentucky. The 2 megawatt thermal system will be the first megawatt-scale carbon-capture pilot unit in the Commonwealth. Officials of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and energy leaders ...
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FuelCell Energy Announces New Carbon Capture Project with Drax Power Station
FuelCell Energy, a leader in delivering clean, innovative and affordable fuel cell solutions for the supply, recovery and storage of energy, today (6/27) announced that it has entered into a contract with Drax Power Station in the United Kingdom for an application of the Company's carbon capture solution. FuelCell Energy will be supporting Drax with a Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) study ...
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Starwood Energy, OGCI Climate Investments and Elysian Ventures Launch New Carbon Capture Project
Starwood Energy Group Global, Inc. recently announced that it has finalized agreements with OGCI Climate Investments to invest in the development of a large-scale carbon capture facility to be integrated with a natural gas power plant. Starwood and OGCI CI will co-invest in the initial development of the project, which will use commercially available CO2 capture technology and is expected to ...
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SoCalGas and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Announce U.S. Department of Energy Funding of Carbon Capture Project
Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) recently announced that the U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $300,000 in funding to a project that would advance the development of a process called Integrated CO2 Capture and Conversion to Methanol (ICCCM). Carbon capture and utilization (CCU) projects are an important component in helping California ...
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Hundreds of millions of pounds worth of contracts available to build world’s biggest carbon capture project at Drax
Drax is teaming up with Worley, NOF, and the West & North Yorkshire and Hull & Humber Chambers of Commerce to deliver a series of events that will provide British businesses with further information about how they could win contracts to deliver its vital carbon removal technology, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). ...
By Drax Group
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Cory announces plans for world’s biggest energy from waste decarbonisation project
Cory, one of the UK’s leading recycling and waste management companies, has today announced plans to develop a major carbon capture and storage (CCS) project following the Government’s commitment to support CCS for the waste sector. Cory intends to apply CCS technology to the UK’s largest single-site energy from waste (EfW) operation, with the potential to create the ...
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Businesses from across the region come together to learn how they can contribute to building the world’s biggest carbon capture project at Drax
More than 328 businesses came together this week at an event run by renewable energy company Drax and its engineering, procurement and construction partner, Worley, to learn how they can win contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds to deliver Drax’s vital carbon removal technology, bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS). More than 328 businesses from across ...
By Drax Group
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ADM Begins Operations for Second Carbon Capture and Storage Project
Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) recently announced that the Illinois Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage (ICCS) project, a partnership to safely and permanently store more than 1 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, has begun operations. "2017 is a watershed year for carbon capture in the United States. On the heels of the successful opening of Petra Nova in Texas, the Illinois ...
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Drax Cuts Emissions by Over 90% to Become One of Europe`s Lowest Carbon Power Generators
British renewable energy company Drax Group has cut the carbon emissions from its power generation by over 90 per cent in under a decade, becoming one of Europe's lowest carbon intensity power generators and moving it closer to achieving its world-leading ambition to be carbon negative by 2030. Formerly the largest coal power station in Western Europe, Drax has this year ended commercial coal ...
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Masdar announces major progress on future energy strategy
Masdar, Abu Dhabi's $15 billion future energy initiative, has made significant steps forward in its ambition to make Abu Dhabi the global centre for future energy. As a long-term strategic and financial initiative, Masdar aims to create an entirely new economic sector in Abu Dhabi turning it into an exporter of technology. Since its inception in April 2006, Masdar has been working to bring this ...
By MASDAR
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Peterhead Carbon Capture and Storage project
Edward Davey is at Peterhead today (Feb. 24, 2014) announcing funding for the next stage of Shell’s Peterhead CCS project. Find out more: read the Peterhead press notice read the Written Ministerial Statement find out more about Carbon Capture and Storage find out more about the CCS Commercialisation Competition The FEED study will allow a detailed programme of engineering, ...
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