Plans for a commercial-scale geological carbon storage complex near Gillette, Wyoming, has received a $15.2m award for the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory.
For the project, the University of Wyoming’s School of Energy Resources (SER), Basin Electric Power Cooperative, and others are working to develop a site near Basin Electric’s 385-megawatt Dry Fork Station and the Wyoming Integrated Test Centre to store over 50 million metric tonnes of CO2 underground.
The three-year, $19.1m project is in its third phase under the Department of Energy’s Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise (CarbonSAFE) initiative, which aims to help mitigate CO2 emissions from consumption of fossil fuels.
“We have successfully demonstrated the feasibility of safely, permanently and economically storing CO2 in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, the largest coal-producing region in the nation,” said Scott Quillinan, Project Manager and SER’s Director of Research.
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