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U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today the selections of six projects that aim to find ways of converting captured carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from industrial sources into useful products such as fuel, plastics, cement, and fertilizers. These projects were funded with $106 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and matched with $156 million in private cost-share. | |
Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Senator George Voinovich (R-OH) today introduced the Carbon Capture and Storage Deployment Act of 2010. This legislation embodies the CURC 5-point Coal w/CCS Program. A press release issued by the Senators upon introduction of the legislation, along with a copy of the actual legislation and a brief summary of the major provisions are attached below. | |
In early February of this year, President Obama announced the formation of a Federal government Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage to be led by the Secretary of Energy and the Administrator of EPA. On July 2, CURC and several industry associations signed and sent to the Task Force a letter further setting forth our collective concerns and recommendations related to CCS. | |
Ten projects aimed at developing advanced technologies for capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) from coal combustion have been selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under its Innovations for Existing Plants (IEP) Program. Valued at approximately $67 million ($51.7 million in DOE grants; $15 million in non-federal cost sharing) over three years, the projects are focused on reducing the "energy and efficiency penalties" associated with applying currently available carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to existing and new power plants. | |
The U.S. Department of Energy has signed a cooperative agreement with NRG Energy Inc. (NRG) for the Parish Post-Combustion CO2 Capture and Sequestration Project to design, construct, and operate a system that will capture and store approximately 400,000 tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per year. The project, which will be managed by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory, was selected under DOE’s Clean Coal Power Initiative, a collaboration between the federal government and private industry working toward low-emission, coal-based power generation technology. The total project cost is $334 million with the DOE share of the cost being $167 million, or 50 percent of the total. Sequestration will begin in 2014, with project completion set for 2017. | |
Yesterday, DOE Secretary Steven Chu announced that three projects have been selected to receive up to $612 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - matched by $368 million in private funding - to demonstrate large-scale carbon capture and storage from industrial sources. The projects were initially selected in October 2009 for phase one research and development grants. Following successful completion of their Phase 1 activities, these three projects were identified as the most promising industrial CCS projects and will now enter into Phase 2 with additional funding to begin design, construction, and operation. Phase II Large-scale Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage selections include: * Leucadia Energy, LLC (Lake Charles, LA)- DOE share: $260 million * Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. (Port Arthur, TX)- DOE share: $253 million | |
Senator Dick Lugar (R-IN) unveiled energy legislation, S. 3464, that would allow the use of coal with CCS and nuclear to be included in a federal 'renewable' energy portfolio standard, which is being called a "diverse energy standard" in the proposed legislation. The proposal also calls for relaxing pollution controls on old coal fired plants that utilities agree to shut down by 2019. | |
Seven projects aimed at advancing coal research and development while providing research exposure to a new generation of scientists and engineers have been selected to participate in the U.S. Department of Energy’s University Coal Research program. | |
Today, Sens. John Kerry (D-MA) and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) released the details of their comprehensive energy and climate change legislation, 'The American Power Act.' Attached below is the bill language and a section by section summary. CURC is currently analyzing the provisions directly related coal and carbon capture and sequestration. We will be back to the CURC members shortly with a detailed analysis and description of the provisions of interest to CURC. |
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