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U.S. Department of Energy Announces $110M for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage
The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has announced approximately $110 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under three funding opportunity announcements (FOAs). Approximately $75M is for awards selected under two FOAs announced earlier this fiscal year; $35M is for a new FOA. These FOAs further the Administration's commitment to ...
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U.S. Department of Energy Announces $131 Million for CCUS Technologies
Recently (4/24), the U.S. Department of Energy'sOffice of Fossil Energy announced up to $131 million for carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) research and development projects through one new funding opportunity announcement (FOA) and the winners of five project selections from a previous FOA. Under the new FOA, Engineering-Scale Testing from Coal- and Natural-Gas-Based Flue Gas and ...
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Battelle and Catahoula Resources Forge Partnership to Accelerate Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage
Battelle and Catahoula Resources will jointly develop solutions for the capture, transport and sequestration of carbon dioxide produced at ethanol facilities in Nebraska.The agreement pairs the world's largest private independent research and development company with a portfolio company of private investment firm The Energy and Minerals Group (EMG), one of the largest investors in midstream ...
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White House Publishes Mid-Century Strategy For Deep Decarbonization
On November 16, 2016, the White House filed the Mid-Century Strategy for Deep Decarbonization with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change under the Paris climate deal. The strategy highlights the role that U.S. government-funded research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) had on the technological advances of the last century, and the potential to increase the pace and ...
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DOE-Sponsored Education Center Hosts International Meeting on CCS
The National Sequestration Education Center (NSEC) kicked off a global workshop on carbon capture and storage (CCS) today in Decatur, Illinois. The two-day “International Workshop on Public Education, Training and Community Outreach for Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage,” which is sponsored in part by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory ...
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Breakthrough industrial carbon capture, utilization and storage project begins full-scale operations
The Energy Department’s Acting Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy Christopher Smith today attended a dedication ceremony at the Air Products and Chemicals hydrogen production facilities in Port Arthur, Texas. Supported by a $284 million Energy Department investment, the company has successfully begun capturing carbon dioxide from industrial operations and is now using that carbon for ...
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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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Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration 2015 Now Accepting Applications
Graduate students and early career professionals can gain hands-on field research experience in areas related to carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) by participating in the Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration (RECS) program. The initiative, supported by Department’s Office of Fossil Energy (FE), the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), and the CCUS Research ...
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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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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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Joint Statement between U.S. Department of Energy and Republic of Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy
Acting Secretary of Energy Daniel B. Poneman and Mr. Yoon Sang-jick, Minister of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE) of the Republic of Korea, met on May 7, 2013, at the Department of Energy (DOE) headquarters in Washington, D.C., where they exchanged views on cooperation on a wide range of energy priorities. They noted the importance of clean energy technologies for energy security, economic ...
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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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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 ...
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U.S. Department of Energy to Provide $22 Million for Research on Capturing Carbon Dioxide from Air
Recently (3/30), the U.S. Department of Energy announced plans to provide up to $22 million for research aimed at achieving breakthroughs in the effort to capture carbon dioxide directly from ambient air. The initiative encompasses two concurrent funding announcements one by DOE's Office of Science (SC) and another by DOE's Office of Fossil Energy (FE) and will span the spectrum from fundamental ...
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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. ...
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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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Summary of Recent North American Energy Ministerial
North America is a region blessed with vast and diverse resources and technologies. Access to increasingly clean, secure, affordable sources of energy is vital to the people of North America. United States Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Jim Carr, and Mexico's Energy Secretary, Pedro Joaquin Coldwell, held a trilateral meeting recently ...
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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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Energy Department Announces Awards to Projects Advancing Innovative Clean Coal Technology
As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above approach to American energy, the Energy Department announced today the selection of eight projects to advance the development of transformational oxy-combustion technologies capable of high-efficiency, low-cost carbon dioxide capture from coal-fired power plants. The Energy Department’s $7 million investment - leveraged with recipient ...
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