NPPD, DOE study carbon dioxide infrastructure
The Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) announced last week that it has agreed to be part of a Department of Energy (DOE) Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise (CarbonSAFE) Phase II study examining carbon dioxide (CO2) collection, transportation, and storage infrastructure.
The goal of the initiative, called Integrated Mid-Continent Stacked Carbon Storage Hub, is to develop an integrated carbon CO2 infrastructure in the Midwest for ethanol facilities and nearby power plants.
NPPD is currently participating in Phase I, working with the Energy Environmental Research Center (EERC) to complete a final report on a pre-feasibility study for a commercial scale CO2 geologic storage complex and with Ion Engineering on the integrated CO2 capture facility design for Gentleman Station Unit 2.
“By being part of Phase II, this continues NPPD’s interest in carbon capture from power plants as well as determining the safest way to transport, store and manage CO2,” John Swanson, NPPD’s Generation Strategies manager, said.
The $13.6 million study, which is expected to take two years to complete, will focus on two areas with high potential for commercial-scale CO2 storage that have been identified for further characterization.
One site is in Kearney County in southwest Kansas with another located in Red Willow County, Nebraska. Both of which are located in existing oilfields.
The project will find and validate what a CO2 pipeline would look like, initially for two corridors – one that would run across Nebraska from Blair to Hitchcock County. A second corridor is a stacked-storage corridor that runs between southwest Nebraska to southeast Kansas.
