The purpose of this solicitation is to advance the technical, economic, and environmental viability of innovative DAC technologies to meet the state’s carbon neutrality goals.
Donor Name: California Energy Commission (CEC)
State: California
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/13/2024
Size of the Grant: More than $1 million
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
This can include testing, piloting, and demonstrating advanced technologies, coupled with active community engagement, benefits planning, and community education.
Projects must fall within the following project groups:
- Group 1: Direct Air Capture Research and Development
- Group 1 will target research and development of DAC technologies that effectively lower the cost, energy consumption, and GHG emissions of the system through improvements to various materials and components such as sorbent, solvent, separation materials, contactors, and separators. Projects must demonstrate rigorous measurement, reporting, and verification of carbon capture effectiveness, use of resources, and carbon intensity.
- Group 2: Direct Air Capture Field Demonstration and Community Engagement
- Group 2 will target field demonstrations of DAC technologies with the goal of testing and optimizing net CO2 removal of at least 1,000 MT of CO2/year by the end of the agreement and the potential to achieve $100/metric ton of CO2 equivalents by 2032. Projects must demonstrate rigorous measurement, reporting, and verification of capture efficiency, energy and resource consumption, and overall GHG and other emissions.
Project Focus
Projects funded by this solicitation will promote the adoption of CM technologies with the focus on developing, testing, and demonstrating DAC technologies from bench scale through field demonstrations, with emphasis on improvements in areas such as the following:
- cost reduction
- energy reduction
- technology advancements to improve capture efficiency, reduction of other resource inputs (e.g., potable water, thermal)
- reduction/reuse/elimination of the use of toxic materials (e.g., solvents, sorbents)
- technology scalability and potential applicability for California, including potential for construction, development, permitting, and operation
- criteria air pollutant emissions reductions
- opportunities for community education and equitable distribution of benefits among involved stockholders.
Funding Information
- Group 1: Direct Air Capture Research and Development
- Available CEC Funding: $2,000,000
- Minimum CEC Award: $500,000
- Maximum CEC Award: $1,000,000
- Group 2: Direct Air Capture Field Demonstration and Community Engagement
- Available CEC Funding: $12,700,000
- Minimum CEC Award: $1,500,000
- Maximum CEC Award: $4,000,000.
Eligible Projects
- Examples of projects within Group 1 include:
- Improvements to increase the lifespan of the abovementioned materials and components.
- Optimization of various process design elements and operation of the system as a whole to simultaneously maximize efficiency and minimize toxicity, carbon footprint, energy consumption, and sustainable sorbent/solvent regeneration cycles.
- Examples of projects within Group 2 include:
- Strategies to minimize resource consumption, particularly energy, water, and land use.
- Development and demonstration of emerging/innovative technologies to scale up, move to a higher TRL and gather operation data via demonstration in California.
- Use of additive manufacturing techniques to facilitate scaleup and reduce the processing cost and requirements.
- Modular designs that minimize the cost of repair, replacement, and adjustments to infrastructure.
- Development of scalable manufacturing and low carbon intensity processes for producing novel DAC materials/components and integration of advanced materials/components into practical DAC systems.
Eligibility Criteria
This solicitation is open to all public and private entities.
For more information, visit CEC.
