Carbon sequestration

Funding Opportunity Announcement Solicits Proposals for Bench- through Pilot-Scale Projects

October 13, 2009 -- Washington, DC — U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that $55 million will be made available to develop advanced technologies that can capture carbon dioxide from flue gases at existing power plants so that the greenhouse gas may be sequestered or put to beneficial use. The funding announced today is a direct investment in carbon capture and storage related technologies that will support the Obama Administration’s effort to help mitigate the effects of CO2 – a major greenhouse gas and contributor to global climate change.    » read more »

October 2, 2009 -- Washington, DC - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced the first round of funding from $1.4 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for the selection of 12 projects that will capture carbon dioxide from industrial sources for storage or beneficial use.

The first phase of these projects will include $21.6 million in Recovery Act funding and $22.5 million in private funding for a total initial investment of $44.1 million. The remaining Recovery Act funding will be awarded to the most promising projects during a competitive phase two selection process.    » read more »

October 5, 2009 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. – United States Senator Roland W. Burris today announced that U.S. Department of Energy funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are being allotted to Decatur for carbon capture and storage projects.

Description of the award is as follows:

· $1,480,656 to the Archer Daniels Midland Corporation in Decatur, IL: Archer Midland Company, a member of the Department of Energy’s Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium, will join other research organizations to demonstrate Dow ALSTOM’s advanced amine process to capture CO2 from industrial flue gases and sequester the CO2 in the Mt. Simon Sandstone reservoir.    » read more »

09/30/2009 -- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today issued the following statement after Sierra Pacific Industries announced the creation of the nation’s largest carbon sequestration project:

“Last week California adopted important accounting rules for capturing carbon through improved forestry practices and this week Sierra Pacific is using those rules to sequester more than one million tons of carbon dioxide. This agreement and the partnerships formed at this summit will help people around the world reduce the 20 percent of global warming emissions that come from deforestation.”    » read more »

Funds Will Support Programs at the University of Illinois and Southern Illinois University

September 16, 2009 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. – United States Senator Roland W. Burris today announced that American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds from the Department of Energy will be allocated to the University of Illinois in Champaign, and Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. This investment from the Recovery Act will advance carbon capture and storage research and development in Illinois and spark job creation. The funds are being directed as follows:    » read more »

Investment of more than $62 million from Recovery Act reflects Administration’s aggressive approach for carbon capture

September 16, 2009 -- Washington, DC - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced more than $62 million in funding that will boost carbon capture and storage research and development in the years to come. Today’s investment from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act reflects the Obama Administration’s commitment to creating new jobs, having the U.S. be a leader on climate change, and reducing our greenhouse gas emissions.    » read more »

Selected Projects Will Advance U.S. as Leader in Technology to Address Climate Change

August 27, 2009 -- Washington, DC —U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced more than $8.4 million in funding to develop regional sequestration technology training projects. The seven projects announced today will facilitate the transfer of knowledge and technologies required for site development, operations, and monitoring of commercial carbon capture and storage projects.

Today’s funding, which includes $6.9 million in Recovery Act funds, will advance the United States in its position as the leader in technology for addressing climate change and for developing near-zero emission technologies to significantly reduce CO2 emissions from power plants.    » read more »

ATLANTA, May 26 -- Southern Company last week announced plans to demonstrate carbon capture and sequestration on a coal-fired power generation plant to support the development of technologies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Along with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. (MHI), the Electric Power Research Institute and other partners, Southern Company will build a demonstration facility to capture carbon dioxide emissions from an existing unit of subsidiary Alabama Power's Plant Barry near Mobile, Ala.

Beginning in 2011, between 100,000 and 150,000 tons of CO2 per year - the equivalent of emissions from 25 megawatts of the plant's generating capacity - would be captured for permanent underground storage in a deep saline geologic formation.    » read more »

May 20, 2009 -- CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Questions surrounding the long-term liability of sequestered carbon dioxide remain a key challenge, Gov. Dave Freudenthal said this week in a letter to U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman, Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

The Governor expressed strong support for Chairman Bingaman’s bill, S.1013, “Department of Energy -Carbon Capture and Sequestration Program Amendments Act of 2009,” and encouraged the committee to continue to address the question of long-term liability of sequestered carbon.    » read more »

May 4, 2009 -- CHARLESTON, W.Va. – West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin today announced that the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection today issued its first carbon dioxide sequestration permit. An underground injection control permit for geologic carbon dioxide storage was issued to the Appalachian Power Company’s Mountaineer Plant located in New Haven.    » read more »

05/06/2008 -- California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $65.6 million to support the California Energy Commission's West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership (WESTCARB) research:

"California is a leader in the fight against global warming, and this money will help us in reaching our climate change goals. It also underscores the need for continued funding to research new technologies. Over a short period of time-just four years-this carbon capture and storage project has the potential to remove one million tons of carbon dioxide from our atmosphere. These are the kinds of innovative technologies that we need to win the battle against greenhouse gas emissions."    » read more »

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Calling the state’s effort to establish a comprehensive regulatory framework for carbon capture and sequestration “groundbreaking,” Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal today signed House Bill 89 and 90 (HEA 18 and 25) in a formal signing in the Capitol Rotunda.

“We have surveyed through both the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission, as well as other sources, and it is clear that these two pieces of legislation are the most comprehensive, most thorough pieces passed by any legislature in the country,” Freudenthal said.    » read more »

CHEYENNE, Wyo.- Marking Wyoming’s groundbreaking effort as the first state to establish a regulatory framework for carbon capture and sequestration, Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal is expected to take action on House Bill 89 and 90 (HEA 18 and 25) in a formal signing at noon on Tuesday, March 4, 2008, in the Capitol Rotunda.

Earlier this year, Freudenthal told the Joint Judiciary Interim Committee that the Wyoming Legislature had an opportunity to lead the nation in regulating long-term carbon capture and sequestration.    » read more »

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The Wyoming Legislature has an opportunity to lead the nation in regulating long-term carbon capture and sequestration, Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal told the Joint Judiciary Interim Committee today.

The committee is considering legislation that would give the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality the authority to regulate the long-term storage of carbon dioxide. The ability to store that CO2 safely over the long term could be critical    » read more »

Kerry Chairs Hearing on New Technologies to Aid in Fight Against Global Climate Change

11/07/2007 -- WASHINGTON D.C. – Senator John Kerry, chair of the Commerce Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Innovation today held a hearing on carbon sequestration, and introduced a bill to help develop a new generation of this most promising environmentally friendly technology.    » read more »