Decarbon Debrief: Weekly Insights into Industrial Decarbonization
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🚨 The Lead
The top story of the week.
Global Thermostat unveiled a direct air capture unit capturing 1,000 tons per year. The company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado and anticipates growing rapidly. Colorado aims to be a hub for climate & industrial emissions technology companies.
When President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into law in August 2022, it significantly impacted the economics of carbon capture projects that sequestered CO2 and Direct Air Capture projects. The IRA more than tripled the tax credits fusing Direct Air Capture to $180 per ton, plus $130 per ton used in products, such as building materials like concrete.
Global Thermostat, Carbon Capture Inc’s Project Bison in Wyoming, and Oxy’s Permian DAC 1 all are moving forward to build these direct air capture projects.
✨ This Week in Decarbonization
Highlights from the week’s most popular stories in industrial decarbonization.
☁️ Global Thermostat unveils one of the world's largest units for removing carbon dioxide directly from air
💚 KBR Technology Selected for Green Ammonia Project in the U.S.
♻️ Dominion Energy Utah Starts Hydrogen Blending
☁️ Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Event by SPE, AAPG, and SEG
🤝 Humble Midstream to Facilitate Enbridge–Yara Joint Development Project by Exiting Ingleside Low-Carbon Ammonia Project
🇨🇦 Heidelberg Materials to partner with the Government of Canada for the First Global Net Zero Carbon Capture and Storage Facility (CCUS) in the Cement Industry
🔌 Mitsubishi Power and Warwick Carbon Solutions to Jointly Develop Advanced Decarbonization Projects for Power and Industrial Sectors
🏭 Adams Fork Energy plant to be the largest clean ammonia facility in U.S and an anchor project in ARCH2 Hydrogen Hub application
👇 The Local
Regional and local updates for industrial decarbonization projects in North America.
Interestingly, environmental groups seeking to fight climate change, like the Dakota Resource Council, stand with Warford in opposition to the pipeline. The Commission didn’t site the pipeline today.
Source: KFYRtv.com
Last week, the Public Service Commission in Bismarck, North Dakota attempted to understand the impact to Bismarck community development. John Warford, a former Bismarck mayor, says no to the pipeline. Warford believes the pipeline will impact growth areas for the city.
Summit Carbon Solutions faces challenges at a variety of federal, state, and local levels due to the pipeline stretching across Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota.
Watch this story as it continues to develop.
☁️ Capture This CO2
A single carbon capture or hydrogen project in industrial decarbonization.
This week's Decarbonfuse ProjectDB highlight is the Aberdeen Biorefinery CCS project.
🏭 Operator: Glacial Lakes Energy / Summit Carbon Solutions
📌 Location: Midwest
⛽ Industry: Ethanol Production
🦺 Project Status: Advanced Development
🌱 Project Type: Commercial
♻️ CO2 Capture Amount: 143,000 tons per year
The Glacial Lakes Energy (GLE) facility is located in Aberdeen, South Dakota. This is one of the four facilities operated by Glacial Lake Energy.
In 2021, Summit Carbon Solutions and Glacial Lakes Energy partnered to develop infrastructure to capture and transport up to 143,000 tonnes of CO2 per annum from the biorefinery plant.
🌍 Elsewhere
Highlights from research, data, or media partners covering the Energy Transition.
Heavy industries plan to leverage low-carbon hydrogen to achieve their sustainability targets. Capgemini examines the topic in depth in the latest Capgemini Research Institute report, Low-carbon hydrogen: A path to a greener future.
62% of E&U organizations believe that low-carbon hydrogen can help nations reduce dependence on fossil fuels and promote energy independence
Source: Capgemini
For the research, Capgemini surveyed over 800 global executives from the energy and utilities (E&U) sector as well as end-user sectors and conducted 20 in-depth interviews with stakeholders across a variety of organizations.
Pathways for Low-carbon Hydrogen
