DOE announces $26 million in carbon-capture project funding

The US Department of Energy announced as much as $26 million in financial assistance for cost-shared research and development projects through its Fossil Energy Office. Selected projects will study ways to reduce both costs and emissions for both coal and natural gas-fired power plants under DOE’s Carbon Capture Program.

Nick Snow

Oct. 19, 2017

DOE said funding will focus on two main areas:

• Development of Novel Transformational Materials and Processes, such as novel water-lean solvents and other materials which can significantly increase carbon dioxide absorption performance, economics, and other benefits.

• Enabling Technologies to Improve Carbon Capture Systems, which will support research to develop technologies benefiting developers overall.

DOE said that the projects will be managed by its National Energy Technology Laboratory.

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NICK SNOW covered oil and gas in Washington for more than 30 years. He worked in several capacities for The Oil Daily and was founding editor of Petroleum Finance Week before joining OGJ as its Washington correspondent in September 2005 and becoming its full-time Washington editor in October 2007. He retired from OGJ in January 2020.