carbon capture technology News

DOE Announces $36 Million for Projects to Advance Carbon Capture Technologies

U.S. U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has announced approximately $36 million in federally-funded financial assistance to advance carbon capture technologies. Under the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office Of Fossil Energy (FE), the Design and Testing of Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies funding opportunity announcement (FOA) will support cost-shared research and development projects that ...

Sep. 25, 2017

By Smart Grid Observer

DNV GL Approves Carbon Capture Technology

DNV GL has approved as qualified, technology for a full-scale demonstration project in Norway to remove carbon emissions at a cement plant. Gassnova, the Norwegian state's agency for implementation of carbon capture and storage projects, initiated the project which will apply carbon capture technology developed by Aker Solutions at Norcem's cement plant in Brevik, Norway. Globally, the cement ...

May 1, 2020

By Smart Grid Observer

Swansea University Researchers Develop One-Step Method for Producing Porous Carbon Spheres

Researchers at Swansea University’s Energy Safety Research Institute have developed a new method that produces spheres that have strong capacity for carbon capture and work at a large scale. Described as “[a] fast, green and one-step method for producing porous carbon spheres, which are a vital component for carbon capture technology and for new ways of storing renewable ...

Jan. 8, 2021

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Department of Energy Invests $72 Million in Carbon Capture Technologies

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of approximately $72 million in federal funding to support the development and advancement of carbon capture technologies under two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. ...

Sep. 1, 2020

By US Department of Energy

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 ...

Nov. 8, 2013

By Associated Press

DOE Selects 16 Transformational Carbon Capture Technologies Projects for Funding

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected 16 projects to receive funding through NETL’s Carbon Capture Program. The program funds development and testing of transformational carbon dioxide (CO2) capture systems for new and existing coal-based power plants. Research funded by this program is expected to help overcome limitations of ...

Aug. 13, 2015

By US Department of Energy

ExxonMobil and Global Thermostat to Advance Breakthrough Atmospheric Carbon Capture Technology

ExxonMobil and Global Thermostat said recently (6/27) that they have signed a joint development agreement to advance breakthrough technology that can capture and concentrate carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources, including power plants, and the atmosphere. The companies will evaluate the potential scalability of Global Thermostat’s carbon capture technology for large industrial use. If ...

Jul. 1, 2019

By Smart Grid Observer

DOE Pens New Agreement with Southern Company to Test Advanced Carbon-Capture & Gasification Technologies

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has signed a new 5-year cooperative agreement with Southern Company to evaluate advanced carbon-capture and gasification technologies at the National Carbon Capture Center (NCCC) in Wilsonville, Ala. Under the agreement, which will be managed by the National Energy Technology Laboratory, Southern Company (Atlanta, Ga.) will test both pre- and post-combustion ...

Jun. 12, 2014

By US Department of Energy

Energy Department Invests $44M in Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies Projects

The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy has selected seven projects to receive approximately $44 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development through the funding opportunity announcement, Design and Testing of Advanced Carbon Capture Technologies. These projects will advance competitive operation of our nation's fossil-based power-generation ...

Feb. 19, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

Energy Department Project Captures and Stores One Million Metric Tons of Carbon

As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Department of Energy announced today that its Illinois Basin-Decatur Project successfully captured and stored one million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) and injected it into a deep saline formation. The project is part of the development phase of the Department’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships ...

Jan. 8, 2015

By US Department of Energy

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 ...

Dec. 1, 2017

By Smart Grid Observer

DOE Marks Major Milestone with Startup of Recovery Act Demonstration Project

Today, the Department of Energy joined Tampa Electric Company (TECO) to celebrate the successful startup of a pilot project to demonstrate a warm gas cleanup carbon capture technology in a coal gasification unit at the Polk Power Plant Unit-1 in Tampa, Florida. The project, which is approximately $3 million under budget, included $168 million American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding. ...

Apr. 9, 2014

By US Department of Energy

Driving down the cost of carbon capture

Post-combustion carbon dioxide capture technologies can already be used under certain conditions and pre-combustion separation uses technologies that are well established in other industrial sectors, such as fertiliser generation and hydrogen production. However, alternative technologies are being explored to further drive down costs and improve overall energy efficiency. New research has ...

May 15, 2008

By European Commission, Environment DG

Ex-Energy chief Chu joins carbon capture company

Former Energy Secretary Steven Chu is joining the board of directors of a Canadian company that says it has a cost-effective way to capture and reuse carbon dioxide from power plants fired by coal and natural gas. Vancouver-based Inventys Thermal Technologies says it has developed a process that it says uses less energy than conventional carbon capture techniques and is less expensive. A ...

Dec. 17, 2013

By Associated Press

Eileen Claussen`s Statement on The Expanding Carbon Capture Through Enhanced Oil Recovery Act of 2014

We applaud Sen. Jay Rockefeller for introducing legislation to advance carbon capture and storage (CCS). The Expanding Carbon Capture Through Enhanced Oil Recovery Act of 2014 would reform and expand an existing tax credit to encourage the use of carbon dioxide captured from power plants and industrial facilities in enhancing production from existing oil fields. Carbon capture and storage is a ...

May 5, 2014

By Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

Aker Solutions Starts Pioneering CO2-Capture Project in Norway

The project is the first of its kind globally for a waste-to-energy plant and comes after Aker Solutions in December signed a contract with the city government. The project is funded by Gassnova, the state enterprise that supports the development and demonstration of technologies to capture carbon dioxide (CO2). "This is pioneering work with significant potential as the world focuses on finding ...

Jan. 25, 2016

By Aker Solutions ASA

Secretary Chu announces simulation-based engineering user center

U.S Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the creation of the Simulation-Based Engineering User Center (SBEUC) that will facilitate collaborative computational research for energy applications. Funded with $20 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the SBEUC will be primarily used for developing and deploying the simulation tools developed under the Carbon ...

Sep. 16, 2010

By US Department of Energy

Carbon capture and storage

I am pleased to inform Parliament that today, the Prime Minister and I are signing a contract with Shell to take their world leading gas carbon capture and storage (CCS) project into the next stage of development. The Government has agreed a multi-million pound contract for engineering, design and financial work on the Peterhead CCS project in Aberdeenshire. The world’s first planned gas ...

Feb. 24, 2014

By Department of Energy and Climate Change

U.S. Energy Secretary Announces $24 Million in New Projects to Advance Transformational Carbon Capture Technologies

U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry has announced the selection of eight projects to receive nearly $24 million in federal funds for cost-shared research and development (R&D) for Novel and Enabling Carbon Capture Transformational Technologies. The selected projects will focus on the development of solvent, sorbent, and membrane technologies to address scientific challenges and knowledge gaps ...

Mar. 1, 2019

By Smart Grid Observer

Record of Decision Issued for the FutureGen 2.0 Project

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has decided to provide financial assistance to the FutureGen Industrial Alliance (the Alliance) for the FutureGen 2.0 Project. DOE will provide approximately $1 billion of in cost-shared funding (the majority of which was appropriated under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) through cooperative agreements with the Alliance, as described in DOE's Record ...

Jan. 15, 2014

By US Department of Energy

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