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Prometheus Materials, DOE labs team on carbon removal accounting

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Sources: Prometheus Materials, Longmont, Colo.; CP staff The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is providing $10 million to a private/public team tasked with establishing methods for measuring, reporting and verifying carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and sequestration in cement and concrete. The agency’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory will team with Prometheus Materials,…

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Cementitious, pozzolanic material plant project grants approach $110M

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Sources: U.S. Department of Energy; CP staff The Department of Energy Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC) has announced $428 million for 14 projects to accelerate clean energy manufacturing, each subject to final negotiation and industry cost-sharing commitments. More than a quarter of the funding could spur three projects involving primary or supplementary concrete binders.

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Feds earmark $100M to decarbonize cement, companion industries

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Sources: U.S. Department of Energy; CP staff The Department of Energy’s (DOE) new “Industrial Decarbonization Roadmap” identifies key pathways—Energy Efficiency; Industrial Electrification; Low Carbon Fuels; Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage—to reducing carbon dioxide emissions in Cement, Iron & Steel, Chemicals, Food & Beverage, Refining and other manufacturing sectors that collectively account for 30 percent of the United States’ annual CO2 load. 

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Energy Department, Power Institute probe walls’ thermal mass

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A $65 million Department of Energy (DOE) program will support technologies enabling energy-efficient buildings to interact with one another and the electric grid, potentially lowering greenhouse gas emission levels and improving power infrastructure. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette announced the funding commitment last month during an Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) gathering in Charlotte, N.C., where attendees toured a Meritage Homes…

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