Aera Direct Air Capture Hub — Kern
USA
Announced
Overview
Status
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Announced
Region
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North America
Geography
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USA
State
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California
Equity Owner
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Aera Federal, LLC (subsidiary of Aera Energy)
Proponent
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Aera Federal, LLC; Battelle Memorial Institute with partners Mosaic Materials Inc., and CarbonCapture Inc
Output
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Direct air capture
Type of electricty
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Capacity
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Financing
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DOE Funding: $2,7m; Non-DOE Funding: $1,7m; Total Value: $4,6m
Technology
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Technical Advisors
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Battelle; Mosaic Materials; Carbon Capture
Advisors
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Project Contact
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Aera President and CEO Erik Bartsch
Lawyers
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Project Cost
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Offtaker
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Commercial Operations Date
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Decommission Date
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FID
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Description
Aera Federal, LLC plans to execute a feasibility study for a regional direct air capture (DAC) hub at Aera Energy’s Belridge oil field in Kern County, California. The DAC Hub — Kern would capture carbon emissions from the atmosphere and safely transport and store them in Aera’s CarbonFrontier sequestration site. The hub would integrate capture, low-carbon energy sources, transportation, and sequestration infrastructure to build an innovative low-carbon supply chain.
In May 2024, Aera Energy announced that the U.S. Department of Energy awarded Aera Federal a $2.8 million cooperative agreement contract as part of the department’s Regional Direct Air Capture Hubs Initiatives. The award helps fund a feasibility study to establish the viability of DAC as a business and technology for large-scale California decarbonization. Funded mostly by the US Department of Energy and partly by Aera, the study is slated to begin in May 2024 and end in April 2026