U.S. Energy Department Announces $130 Million for Carbon Capture Technologies to Reduce Industrial Emissions

The U.S. Energy Department on April 24 announced $46 million funding for cost-shared research and development projects that capture and store carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources. The department also selected five projects to receive $85 million under a previously announced funding opportunity to accelerate wide-scale deployment of these technologies.

While carbon capture, utilization, and storage, or CCUS, is largely considered for application in power generation facilities, the department noted that capture and storage of carbon dioxide from industrial sources is also critical to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The agency seeks proposals to support engineering studies of these systems for industrial sources and testing of advanced carbon capture materials, processes, or a combination of both for fossil fuel energy plants.

The projects selected through the previous funding opportunity namely “Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise or CarbonSAFE, will focus on two areas. First, the projects will assess and verify safe and cost-effective commercial-scale geologic storage sites for emissions. Second, they will evaluate the technical and economic viability of carbon capture or purification technologies for sources that will provide carbon dioxide to the storage sites.