Carbon Capture Research and Development For Natural Gas and Industrial Point Sources and Front End Engineering Design Studies for Carbon Capture Systems at Industrial Facilities and Natural Gas Plants. | DE FOA 0002410

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The Department of Energy, through the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), released Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002410 titled "Carbon Capture Research and Development For Natural Gas and Industrial Point Sources and Front End Engineering Design Studies for Carbon Capture Systems at Industrial Facilities and Natural Gas Plants." This is a discretionary funding opportunity in the energy category (CFDA 81.089) and is intended to accelerate carbon capture solutions that can be deployed at natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) power plants and a range of industrial facilities. The central aim is to push the field toward carbon capture technologies that are meaningfully lower cost, more energy-efficient, scalable, and suitable for real-world integration, particularly for flue gas streams associated with NGCC generation and industrial point sources.

The FOA uses a cooperative agreement as its funding instrument, which typically means the DOE expects substantial involvement during the project, such as technical coordination, milestone reviews, and active project management in partnership with awardees. Eligibility is described as unrestricted (open to any type of entity), with the caveat that applicants must follow any additional eligibility conditions stated in the full FOA text. The opportunity was created on April 5, 2021, with an original closing date of June 4, 2021. DOE also indicated it anticipated two closing dates and would accept new applications for each submission window, which signals an intent to support multiple rounds of competitively selected projects under the same announcement.

From a funding and scale perspective, the FOA listed an award ceiling of $6,000,000 per award and anticipated making roughly 12 awards. That combination suggests DOE was aiming to support a portfolio of projects rather than a single large demonstration, with budgets sized to meaningfully advance technology development, integration work, and front-end engineering efforts. In practical terms, awards in this range are often used to mature capture concepts, validate performance at pilot or relevant scale, reduce technical risks, and produce engineering-quality deliverables that make subsequent scale-up or deployment more credible to owners, operators, and financiers.

Technically, the opportunity is framed around three areas of interest. While the short description does not list them individually, the title and scope make clear the FOA is split between (1) research and development that improves carbon capture for NGCC flue gas, (2) research and development for industrial point-source capture, and (3) front-end engineering design (FEED) studies for carbon capture systems at industrial facilities and natural gas plants. The R&D emphasis points to innovations that reduce overall capture cost, reduce energy penalties, increase capture efficiency, and improve scalability and operability. The FEED component is more deployment-oriented: it is meant to produce site-specific engineering designs, integration plans, and cost estimates that can bridge the gap between a promising capture approach and an investable project, especially for retrofit situations where space constraints, steam and power availability, emissions control interactions, and downtime considerations can drive project risk and cost.

Overall, this FOA is best understood as a DOE effort to build a pipeline from earlier-stage technology improvements through to near-deployment planning for carbon capture at both gas power and industrial facilities. By funding both technology advancement and FEED studies, DOE is targeting two common barriers to adoption at once: the need for better, cheaper capture technology and the need for high-quality engineering packages that make projects executable at real sites.

• The Department of Energy, National Energy Technology Laboratory in the energy sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Carbon Capture Research and Development For Natural Gas and Industrial Point Sources and Front End Engineering Design Studies for Carbon Capture Systems at Industrial Facilities and Natural Gas Plants." and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 81.089.
• This funding opportunity was created on Apr 05, 2021.
• Applicants must submit their applications by Jun 04, 2021 DOE anticipates having two closing dates for submission of applications under this Funding Opportunity Announcement and will accept new applications under this announcement for each closing date.. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Each selected applicant is eligible to receive up to $6,000,000.00 in funding.
• The number of recipients for this funding is limited to 12 candidate(s).
• Eligible applicants include: Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled Additional Information on Eligibility.

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