MITCHELL – Five months after Heidelberg Materials North America announced it would receive up to $500 million in federal funds to build a carbon capture and storage facility at its Mitchell plant, the company announced it has finalized award negotiations with the US Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations.
Following negotiations, the OCED awarded the Mitchell Cement Plant Decarbonization Project $300,000 as part of its Industrial Demonstrations Program to begin Phase 1 of the project.
The initiation of Phase 1 is the first step of a multi-phased project that will ultimately result in the construction and operation of full-scale carbon capture, transport, and storage at the company’s new state-of-the-art cement plant in Mitchell.
The company wants the Mitchell plant to be carbon neutral by 2030, the same year the carbon capture facility is slated to be fully operational.
According to a press release, the funding builds on prior awards from the DOE toward completing the front-end engineering and design work necessary to verify the project’s technical feasibility.
