The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) is catalyzing the equitable transition to the clean energy economy by investing in critical clean energy technologies in partnership with the private sector to accelerate deployment and market adoption.
On September 23, 2022, DOE announced up to $189 million in funding for integrated Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) studies to support the development of community-informed integrated carbon capture, transport, and storage projects. This funding is part of OCED’s Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects Program, which seeks to address the urgent need to advance carbon management technologies. The goal of the Carbon Capture Demonstration Projects Program is to accelerate the implementation of integrated carbon capture and storage technologies and catalyze significant follow-on investments from the private sector to mitigate carbon emissions sources in industries across America.
Awarded FEED studies projects include:
Duke Energy Indiana, LLC
OCED is working with Duke Energy to demonstrate the company’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology design. This FEED study seeks to evaluate the feasibility of capturing and storing CO2 from flue gases of the two Heat Recovery Steam Generators at the Edwardsport power generation plant in Knox County, Indiana.
Heidelberg Materials U.S., Inc.
OCED is working with Heidelberg to evaluate the cost and performance of retrofitting a cement plant with amine-based carbon capture technology, identify site-specific considerations for the full-scale integration at the specified facility, and evaluate the benefits to the community from the technology retrofit. This FEED study will examine storage aspects of the project, including nearby storage injection wells to be located on Heidelberg property in Lawrence County, Indiana.
Tampa Electric Company
OCED is working with Tampa Electric Company to complete a FEED study to design and determine the cost of retrofitting ION Clean Energy, Inc.’s post-combustion carbon capture technology with pipeline transport and secure geologic storage for the natural gas combined cycle power plant at the Polk Power Station in Mulberry, Florida.
Southern States Energy Board
OCED is working with Southern States Energy Board to evaluate the cost and performance of retrofitting a cement plant with a cryogenic-based carbon capture technology, and identify benefits to the community from the technology retrofit.
Entergy Services, LLC
OCED is working with Entergy Services, LLC to complete a FEED study to develop a full-scale integrated carbon capture project for Entergy Louisiana’s natural gas combined cycle power plant at Lake Charles Power Station.
Membrane Technology and Research Carbon Capture
OCED is working with Membrane Technology and Research (MTR) Carbon Capture and its strategic partner, The Wyoming Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise (CarbonSAFE), to complete a FEED study for a proposed capture plant featuring MTR Carbon Capture’s second-generation Polaris™ membrane.
Navajo Transitional Energy Company, LLC (NTEC)
OCED is working with Navajo Transitional Energy Company, LLC (NTEC) to complete an integrated FEED study to determine the specifications for carbon dioxide (CO₂) capture, transport, and storage at the Four Corners Power Plant (FCPP), a coal-fired power plant located on the Navajo Nation near Fruitland, NM
Both OCED and the award recipient have the right to discontinue the agreement at any time during the life of the project. Projects awarded under this program that are no longer receiving federal funding: Taft Carbon Capture and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.