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• Energy Department awards $127 million to carbon sequestration projects in California, Ohio
• Correction of 2008 National Lineworkers Rodeo results

Energy Department awards $127 million to carbon sequestration projects in California, Ohio

The Department of Energy last week announced awards of $126.6 million to the West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership and the Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership, for DOE’s fifth and sixth large-scale carbon sequestration projects. The industry partnerships will conduct tests in California and Ohio of the ability of a geologic formation to safely, permanently and economically store more than a million tons of carbon dioxide.

Subject to annual appropriations from Congress, DOE plans to invest $126.6 million in the two projects over the next 10 years, while the industry partners will provide $56.6 million.

The formations to be tested are the most promising of the major geologic basins in the United States, DOE said. Collectively, these formations have the potential to store more than 100 years of carbon dioxide emissions from all major point sources in North America, DOE said.

The Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership, led by Battelle Memorial Laboratories, will demonstrate carbon dioxide storage in the Mount Simon Sandstone, which stretches from Kentucky through Ohio and has the potential to store more than 100 years of emissions from major point sources in the region, DOE said. The partnership covers Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York and Michigan.

The West Coast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership, led by the California Energy Commission, will inject one million tons of carbon dioxide over four years into geologic formations below a 50-MW, zero-emission power plant in Kimberlina, Calif., DOE said The partnership includes California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii and British Columbia.

The DOE awards are the fifth and sixth of seven awards in the third phase of the department’s Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships program.  In October, DOE announced the first three large volume carbon sequestration projects that total $318 million for Plains Carbon Dioxide Reduction Partnership, Southeast Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership, and Southwest Regional Partnership for Carbon Sequestration, and in December, DOE announced its fourth award to the Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium.

(From Public Power Daily Posted 05.12.08)

Correction of 2008 National Lineworkers Rodeo results

By mistake, the results of events at the 2008 Public Power Lineworkers Rodeo were misreported. The correct results are:
Apprentice—Hurtman Rescue
Third Place—Darren Briscoe, Gainesville Regional Utilities, Florida

(From Public Power Daily Posted 05.12.08)

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