[font face=Serif][font size=5]In Milestone, Energy Department Projects Safely and Permanently Store 10 Million Metric Tons of Car[/font]

April 22, 2015 - 5:59pm

[font size=4]In Milestone, Energy Department Projects Safely and Permanently Store 10 Million Metric Tons of Carbon Dioxide[/font]

[font size=3]WASHINGTON – In a landmark accomplishment, the U.S. Department of Energy is announcing that a group of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects supported by the Department have safely captured 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) – the equivalent of removing more than 2 million passenger vehicles from the nation’s roads for one year.

This milestone builds on the Obama administration’s goals of providing clean energy, supporting American jobs, and reducing emissions of carbon pollution. Rapid commercial development and deployment of clean coal technologies, particularly CCS, will help position the United States as a leader in the clean energy race.

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The RCSP Initiative consists of seven partnerships focused on determining the best regional approaches for storing CO2 in geologic formations. The Partnerships include more than 400 organizations spanning 43 states and four Canadian provinces, and form the core of a nationwide network to identify optimal technologies, geologic carbon storage sites, regulatory options and infrastructure requirements to ensure the safe storage of CO2 and facilitate the commercial deployment of CCS.

The ICCS program – representing a $1.4 billion investment under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act – is a major step forward in the effort to reduce CO2 emissions from industrial plants. The program has helped industry demonstrate the CCS technologies that can be readily replicated and commercially deployed in industrial facilities.

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