The U.S. Dept. of Energy seeks proposals for both demonstration and large-scale projects that use “transformational” carbon capture technologies in the power and industrial sectors, DOE announced Feb. 23. The agency plans to spend up to $2.5 billion across two new programs established by the federal infrastructure law enacted in 2021.
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) or carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) projects have had a complicated past, with some notable failures caused by runaway cost overruns, along with successes, such as Shell Canada’s C$1.3 billion Quest CCUS project in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, one of the first and largest successfully operating carbon capture power projects in the world.