DOE awards Wyoming $41M for carbon storage hub
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June 15, 2023
(Dustin Bleizeffer/WyoFile)
The University of Wyoming's School of Energy Resources, and its partners, are advancing a CO2 capture and sequestration demonstration project at Basin Electric's Dry Fork Station, seen here on Sept. 2, 2022.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded $40.5 million to the University of Wyoming to advance a "large-scale" commercial carbon storage hub in the southwest corner of the state. It's the latest show of federal support for cleaner energy projects in the state, and comes as a result of years of foundation laying in the sector.
The Sweetwater Carbon Storage Hub - part of the federal CarbonSAFE Initiative - will be located near Granger, west of Green River, according to a UW official. Texas-based Frontier Carbon Solutions, a partner on the project, plans to drill a series of injection wel...
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