News
2011
- March 23: Licensing Agreement Moves Two NETL-Patented Carbon Capture Sorbents Closer to Commercialization. (NETL - link)
- March 16: Carbon Capture and Storage Initiative Aims to Bring Technologies to Market Faster. (NETL - link)
- February 8: DOE Program Offers Participants Unique Opportunity to Gain Carbon Capture and Storage Knowledge. (NETL - link)
- February 3: NETL-Developed Process for Capturing CO2 Emissions Wins National Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer. (NETL - link)
2010
- December 1: Third Carbon Sequestration Atlas Estimates Up to 5,700 Years of CO2 Storage Potential in U.S. and Portions of Canada. (NETL - link)
- November 4: DOE-Sponsored Field Test Finds Potential for Permanent Storage of CO2 in Lignite Seams. (NETL - link)
- August 14: Energy secretary to speak at UC: Carbon capture topic at Sept. 8 forum. (Charleston Gazette - link)
- August 5: Secretary Chu Announces FutureGen 2.0. (DOE - link)
- August 5: Durbin, Quinn Statement on New FutureGen to Move Forward at Mattoon and Other Illinois Locations. (eNews Park Forest - link)
- March 5: AEP chief wants to expand sequestration project in W.Va.. (E&E (subscription required) - link)
- January 13: DOE Publishes Best Practices Manual for Public Outreach and Education for Carbon Storage Projects. (NETL - link)
2009
- December 4: Secretary Chu Announces $3 Billion Investment for Carbon Capture and Sequestration. (NETL - link)
- November 17: Peabody Energy Executes Joint Venture Agreement With China's GreenGen Project to Become Full Equity Participant. (Peabody Energy - link)
- November 13: Database shows proliferation of global CCS projects. (E&E (subscription required) - link)
- November 6: DOE sequestration test reaches milestone. (E&E (subscription required) - link)
- October 12: Letter from Secretary Chu Promtoing CCS Technology. (DOE - link)
- October 2: Secretary Chu Announces First Awards from $1.4 Billion for Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Projects. (DOE Fossil Energy Techline - link)
- July 22: Dig the coal, bury the carbon. (Christian Science Monitor - link)
- June 4: Carbon storage on public lands raises big stewardship and liability questions. (DOI report - link)
- May 27: DOE Establishes National Carbon Capture Center to Speed Deployment of CO2 Capture Processes - link)
- May 22: DOE Regional Partnership Begins Core Sampling for Large-Volume Sequestration Test - link)
- May 6: W.Va. plant receives state's 1st permit to bury CO2. (E&E (subscription required) - link)
- April 6: Carbon capture and storage moves a step closer. (Telegraph UK - link)
- March 17: Monitoring, Verification, and Accounting of CO2 Stored in Deep Geological Formations. (DOE - link 11.2 MB)
- March 17: DOE outlines monitoring techniques for stored CO2. (E&E (subscription required) - link)
- March 16: New Science Gauges Potential to Store CO2. (USGS - link)
- January 28: E.U. to spend billions on projects after Russia-Ukraine dispute. (Greenwire (subscription required) - link)
- January 27: EPRI to Study Adding Carbon Capture to Existing Coal Power Plants. (link)
- January 7: Durbin and Delegation Members Discuss FutureGen With DOE Secretary Nominee. (link)
2008
- December 16: ConocoPhillips and Peabody to develop a coal to gas (and CCS ready) facility in Muhlenberg County Kentucky. (link)
- December 9: Toshiba announces plans to build retrofit CCS pilot plant. (Greenbiz.com - link)
- December 9: Partial carbon capture could be stepping stone to full capture and storage. (EnvironmentalResearchWeb - link)
- December 9: Va. Tech center heads carbon capture test project. (DailyPress.com - link)
- December 8: Energy & environment experts discuss coal. (National Journal - link)
- December 5: Bank funds carbon capture research. (Harvard Crimson - link)
- December 2: Arch Coal pledges $5 million to Washington University's Energy Consortium to advance clean coal technology. (link)
- December 2: Peabody Energy advances clean coal research and advanced mining technologies with $10 million in grants. (link)
- November: President-elect Obama's position on clean coal/green energy. (link)
- October 29: Carbon capture and storage: an opportunity we can't afford to lose. (link)
- July 31: DOE announces $36 million in funding for 15 advance carbon capture projects intended to retrofit existing coal-based electricity technologies. (link)
2007
- December 18: FutureGen Alliance selects Mattoon, Illinois as the final site for the first-of-a-kind, near-zero emissions coal-fueled power plant. (link)
- November 8: RWE to join AEP in validation of carbon capture technology. (link)