Heidelberg Materials Mitchell CarbonSAFE Sequestration Project

Overview

Status

Announced

Region

North America

Geography

USA

State

Indiana

Equity Owner

Heidelberg Materials; University of Illinois

Proponent

Heidelberg Materials North America ; Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Output

Carbon sequestration

Type of electricty

Capacity

50 million metric tons of CO2 over a 30-year timeframe

Financing

DOE Funding: $ 8,898,036 Non-DOE Funding: $ 2,224,760 Total Value: $ 11,122,796

Technology

Technical Advisors

Illinois State Geological Survey at the University of Illinois

Advisors

Project Contact

Nate Grigsby, Ilinois Geological Survey

Lawyers

Project Cost

Offtaker

Commercial Operations Date

Decommission Date

FID

Description

A prospective carbon sequestration project in reservoirs within Cambro-Ordovician strata under the Heidelberg Materials (Lehigh Hanson, Inc), Cement Plant in Mitchell, Indiana for safe storage of more than 50 million metric tons of CO2 over a 30-year timeframe.

The project received $8.9 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise (CarbonSAFE) initiative. The award will be issued to the Illinois State Geological Survey at the University of Illinois as the prime contractor, with the company acting as a technical and industrial partner.

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