article thumbnail

4 companies jointly propose $8B green energy initiative for LA area; Wyoming wind, Utah storage, transmission

Green Car Congress

The project would require construction of one of America’s largest wind farms in Wyoming, one of the world’s biggest energy storage facilities (compressed air energy storage, CAES) in Utah, and a 525-mile electric transmission line connecting the two sites. Electric transmission line: Duke-American Transmission proposes to build the $2.6-billion,

Utah 261
article thumbnail

DOE-sponsored project shows huge potential for carbon storage in Wyoming; potential for lithium recovery to offset cost

Green Car Congress

The Wyoming Rock Springs Uplift could potentially store 14 to 17 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), according to results from a Department of Energy-sponsored study. For every 1 million metric tons of CO 2 stored, approximately 250 metric tons of lithium carbonate, with an approximate market value of $1.6

Wyoming 199
article thumbnail

DKRW Advanced Fuels secures EPC contract with Sinopec Engineering for Medicine Bow coal-to-liquids project in Wyoming

Green Car Congress

Using bituminous coal from southern Wyoming, the Medicine Bow facility will produce 11,600 barrels per day of very low sulfur gasoline using GE gasification technology and methanol?to?gasoline gasoline (MTG) technologies. Earlier post.). SEG is a share?controlled The plant, once built, will be the first commercial?

Wyoming 236
article thumbnail

BNEF: global carbon capture capacity due to rise sixfold by 2030

Green Car Congress

By 2030, storing CO 2 deep underground will overtake oil recovery as the primary destination for CO 2 , with 66% of it going to dedicated storage sites. Soon after the US passed its “Inflation Reduction Act”, a project to build five million tons of carbon removal capacity in Wyoming was announced.

Carbon 293
article thumbnail

MSU moves forward with DOE-backed CO2 storage project in northern Montana

Green Car Congress

The team includes four other universities, three national laboratories and five private sector companies and has experience with carbon storage projects in Washington, Wyoming, Canada, Illinois, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and internationally. Three companies, Vecta Oil and Gas, SR2020 Inc.

Montana 199
article thumbnail

DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

Green Car Congress

In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. Such tagging will better quantify CO 2 monitoring and make it possible to accurately inventory geologically stored carbon.

CO2 225
article thumbnail

DOE to award up to $12.4M to 11 projects focused on shale gas and enhanced oil recovery

Green Car Congress

EIA projects its wider use could result in EOR providing 33% of total domestic onshore production by 2035, while helping store millions of tons of CO 2 emissions from power plants and industrial sources. The total value of the shale-related projects is more than $17.0 million over 3 years with approximately $6.7 million in federal funds.

Oil 225