DOE invests $101M to establish CCUS test centres

Jan 15 2025


Five projects will help establish test centres to cost-effectively research and evaluate technologies to capture and convert carbon dioxide into products from utility and industrial sources or remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The five projects will support the development of CO2 capture, removal, and conversion test centres for cement manufacturing facilities and power plants.  

“Carbon management technologies such as carbon capture can significantly reduce emissions from fossil energy use and key industrial processes, like cement production,” said Brad Crabtree, Assistant Secretary of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management. “By investing in test centers, we are helping reduce barriers to commercial scale deployment of carbon capture, conversion, and removal technologies that will ultimately help reduce pollution and create jobs.”

Establishing test centres of various sizes that use varying feedstocks from different industries can help establish and improve the efficacy and performance of carbon capture technologies. Each of these projects will enable economical and environmentally sustainable carbon management:

  • The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Illinois) plans to develop the conceptual design, business, technical and managerial structures for a test center to evaluate and accelerate carbon capture, removal, and conversion technologies in the cement industry. 
     
  • Holcim US (Chicago, Illinois) plans to establish a domestic Cement Carbon Management Innovation Center at its Hagerstown Cement Facility in Maryland and explore the feasibility of the testing center location, ownership structure, business model and technology partners. 
     
  • Southern Company Services, Inc. (Birmingham, Alabama) intends to maintain and operate the National Carbon Capture Center, a comprehensive test facility capable of evaluating CO2 capture, removal, and conversion technologies under electric generating plant operating conditions. 
     
  • University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (Grand Forks, North Dakota) plans to enhance its existing CO2 capture, removal and conversion test center to rapidly and cost-effectively test more technologies under relevant power plant operating conditions. 
     
  • University of Wyoming (Laramie, Wyoming) plans to expand the existing Wyoming Integrated Test Center’s capabilities to accommodate a wider range of carbon management technologies, simulating emissions from natural gas and industrial facilities.

Project funding is subject to appropriations. DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), under the purview of FECM, will manage the selected projects.

More information on the projects


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