Appalachian Carbon Education Program — Battelle Memorial Institute (Columbus, Ohio) plans to aid carbon capture and storage deployment in the Appalachian Basin. The project will establish a multi-disciplinary team that will provide a series of best practice manuals for the development of carbon capture and storage projects in the region that can educate interested parties on topics such as subsurface issues; regulation, permitting, transportation and safety; and outreach and technical transfer. Results could lead to commercial-scale storage programs with the potential of developing into a regional storage hub, thus reducing overall carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and aiding the region’s move toward a more energy-resilient and sustainable future.
DOE Funding: $4,999,964
Non-DOE Funding: $1,340,073
Total Value: $6,340,037
California Central Valley Carbon Capture Storage and Community Engagement Partnership— Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, California) intends to provide technical assistance and community engagement and address the challenges facing carbon capture and storage deployment in the Central Valley Basin of California, a basin with excellent and widely distributed storage resources. The goals of this project will be accomplished through five objectives: (1) engage with communities, (2) provide extensive training for all educational levels, (3) reevaluate and share CO2 storage resource and risk assessment, (4) identify cross-cutting opportunities that support the development of CO2 storage projects, and (5) provide technical assistance to both project developers and the community.
DOE Funding: $4,999,095
Non-DOE Funding: $1,344,013
Total Value: $6,343,108
The Columbia River Basalt Technical Assistance Program — Carbon Solutions LLC (Okemos, Michigan) plans to provide objective, unbiased technical assistance to key stakeholders of carbon storage projects in the Columbia River Basalt to accelerate the environmentally responsible deployment of carbon management projects in the region. The team will address four critical themes that present the greatest region-specific challenges and opportunities: (1) the potential for basalts to serve as geologic horizons for commercial-scale carbon storage, (2) the potential for deep decarbonization and commercial deployment in an area of the country with few conventional sources of emissions and scant carbon management infrastructure, (3) an aggressive policy landscape that provides long-term sustainability for a carbon-management industry, and (4) regional stakeholders with a strong mission for environmental stewardship.
DOE Funding: $5,000,000
Non-DOE Funding: $1,252,725
Total Value: $6,252,725
Regional Initiative for Technical Assistance Partnerships - Permian Basin — Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas) intends to implement and accelerate the environmentally responsible deployment of storage-based carbon management projects in the Permian Basin. The team will provide technical and engagement support for stakeholders to develop a framework for the establishment of a carbon management hub. The multidisciplinary partnerships comprise participants from five universities, two national laboratories, one geological survey, one private company, and a variety of regional stakeholders and local communities. These stakeholders have extensive technical, managerial, regulatory, and business expertise specific to carbon transport and storage in Permian Basin, and business expertise specific to carbon transport and storage in Permian Basin.
DOE Funding: $4,999,998
Non-DOE Funding: $1,249,873
Total Value: $6,249,871
Williston Basin Regional Initiative Technical Assistance Partnership — University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (Grand Forks, North Dakota) plans to leverage the experience gained through past and ongoing efforts to build a Williston Basin partnership by providing technical assistance to project developers, regulators, and community stakeholders. Private sector entities are advancing commercial carbon capture and storage projects in the Williston Basin by developing several large-scale CO2 storage facilities and regional carbon management hubs that consist of multiple carbon sources, storage reservoirs, and transport systems such as pipelines that link the sources and storage locations. The demand for technical assistance in these endeavors has grown substantially, with a focus on specificity of potential storage resources and impacts on communities within the Williston Basin. Given the multitude of stakeholders looking to develop storage projects, a basin-focused technical assistance partnership can ensure CO2 storage resources continue to be managed safely and efficiently.
DOE Funding: $5,000,000
Non-DOE Funding: $1,250,000
Total Value: $6,250,000
Project GuMBO - Gulf of Mexico Basin Opportunities — The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, Texas) intends to accelerate the environmentally responsible deployment of geologic storage-based carbon management in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico Basin region (onshore and offshore) by providing unbiased, factual, technical assistance to regulators, project developers, and communities weighing the benefits and risks of the new geologic storage industry—an industry that can have significant positive benefits on communities across the region. This project will interact with communities to determine their needs, provide reliable technical information, education outreach, and training to address those needs, and foster environmental stewardship.
DOE Funding: $4,992,358
Non-DOE Funding: $1,248,089
Total Value: $6,240,447
The Uinta-Piceance Basin Carbon Management and Community Engagement Partnership — The University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah) plans to accelerate the environmentally responsible deployment and development of a storage-based carbon management industry in the Uinta-Piceance Basin in eastern Utah and western Colorado by establishing a partnership with extensive technical, managerial, regulatory, and business expertise specific to carbon transport and storage. The project team will collect and analyze existing data from all available sources to comprehensively evaluate the geologic carbon dioxide storage capacity and potential in the Uinta-Piceance Basin with advanced toolsets. Major activities include partnership development, data gathering, carbon management deployment strategy optimization by considering the unique opportunities and challenges in the Basin, data sharing, technical assistance to community stakeholders, and education resources development for the next generation workforce.
DOE Funding: $4,780,568
Non-DOE Funding: $ 1,208,598
Total Value: $5,989,166
Wyoming Technical Assistance Collaboration for Carbon Management — University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) intends to enable present and future project development with stakeholders by providing a comprehensive and intuitive central data repository of robust technical and non-technical information to accelerate future development of carbon storage projects in the Greater Green River Basin and Wind River Basin. To address the increasingly complex project landscape, the project will provide carefully curated and collated data resources accessible to current and potential project developers, regulators, community advocacy groups, labor organizations, and all those seeking to develop and deploy environmentally responsible carbon management projects in the State of Wyoming.
DOE Funding: $4,726,449
Non-DOE Funding: $ 1,200,000
Total Value: $5,926,449
Technical Assistance Partnership to Advance Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage in Michigan: A Roadmap to Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage — Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan) plans to create a technical assistance partnership that will accelerate the growth of an environmentally responsible carbon management industry through the creation of a roadmap to carbon capture, utilization, and storage in Michigan. The Michigan Basin has been recognized as one of the top regions for commercial-scale carbon capture, utilization, and storage, hydrogen storage potential, and hub-scale storage potential. It has the potential to store more than 70 gigatons of CO2 within five key reservoirs and unknown potential in many others.
DOE Funding: $4,999,969
Non-DOE Funding: $ 1,254,552
Total Value: $6,254,521