Funding Notice: Regional Initiative for Technical Assistance Partnerships (RITAP) to Advance Deployment of Basin-Scale Carbon Transport and Storage and Community Engagement

Office: Carbon Management
FOA number: DE-FOA-0003014
Download the full funding opportunity: FedConnect
Funding Amount: $44.5 million

Background Information

On August 8, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management (FECM) announced the selection of nine university and industry-led projects to receive $44.5 million in federal funding to advance commercial-scale carbon capture, transport, and storage across the United States. These regional partnership projects will accelerate the understanding of specific geologic basins to enable the permanent storage of carbon dioxide emissions from industrial operations and power plants, as well as from legacy emissions in the atmosphere. The partnerships will provide technical, informational, and educational assistance to stakeholders involved in DOE and private sector-based carbon transport and storage projects located throughout the country, as well as to communities where these projects are located. These efforts support the Biden-Harris Administration's commitment to ensuring that all carbon management projects continue to be designed, built, and operated safely and responsibly, and in a way that reflects the best science and commercial practice and responds to the needs and inputs of local communities. 

Selected projects will establish partnerships that include stakeholders with extensive technical, managerial, regulatory, and business expertise specific to carbon transport and storage. Each partnership will focus on a particular region where multiple carbon storage projects are expected to be deployed and provide project developers, regulators, community advocacy groups, labor organizations, and other affected stakeholders with objective, unbiased technical assistance within that region.

Selectees

Projects will provide a valuable public information resource for developers of carbon storage sites, local communities, and other interested parties. The nine selected project teams will perform technical assistance designed to reduce project costs and risks, improve monitoring effectiveness, build strategies for engaging with communities, and provide data to support permitting, policy development, and rulemaking:

• Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio) 
• Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) 
• Carbon Solutions LLC (Okemos, Michigan) 
• Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas) 
• University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (Grand Forks, North Dakota) 
• The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas)
• The University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah) 
• University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) 
• Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

A detailed list of the selected projects can be found here.

Key Dates

Additional Information

• Download the full funding opportunity on FedConnect.
• All applicants must register and apply on Grants.gov and submit questions through FedConnect 

Last Updated: August 8, 2024