Wellington Microtech is developing a 3,000-barrel-per-day/41.2 million gallons/year biofuel refinery located in Wellington, Utah. The refinery will produce renewable diesel, renewable naphtha, and sustainable aviation fuel. Wellington Microtech will utilize a patented four-step technology capable of processing twenty-three different feedstocks (oils, fats, and greases). The fuels produced will be drop-in ready. The fuel will require… Continue reading Wellington Microtech Biofuel Refinery
The University of Utah and its partners identified a practical commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS). Objectives included identifying and quantifying technical requirements as well as attributes that maximize economic feasibility and public acceptance of an eventual storage project. The primary outcome of the project, also called the CarbonSAFE Rocky Mountains Phase I project, was… Continue reading Utah CarbonSAFE carbon storage
Commercial CO2 storage in Utah’s Uinta Basin University of Utah intends to establish the feasibility of commercial CO2 storage in Utah’s Uinta Basin with high-resolution societal analysis, geological characterization data, technical analysis, economic evaluation, and environmental analysis. This project intends to accelerate Deseret Power’s assessment of commercial-scale CO2 capture, combine additional CO2 sources in the… Continue reading Uinta Basin CarbonSAFE II: Storage Complex
Fervo Energy Company (Houston, Texas) intends to establish the Red Rocks DAC Hub in southwest Utah. Fervo’s geothermal and carbon sequestration exploration and resource characterization activities suggest that there is more than 10 gigawatts of high-quality, economically exploitable geothermal resources available in southwest Utah, which could translate into a storage potential of up to 100… Continue reading Red Rocks DAC Hub: A Geothermal Energy-Driven Direct Air Carbon Capture and Sequestration Hub in Southwest Utah
This interstate coalition between Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Utah contracts with Atkins Nuclear Solutions and includes regional utilities. The group is proposing to build eight major hydrogen projects that will replace coal-fired power plants and supply a mix of hydrogen and natural gas to local communities and for transportation. The projects would generate 1,000… Continue reading Western Interstate Hydrogen Hub (WISHH) (encouraged)
Dubbed “IPP Renewed,” the project project includes the retirement of the existing coal-fueled units at the IPP site; installation of new natural gas-fueled electricity generating units capable of utilizing hydrogen for 840 megawatts net generation output; modernization of IPP’s Southern Transmission System linking IPP to Southern California; and the development of hydrogen production and long-term… Continue reading IPA | Intermountain Power Project Renewed
A clean energy storage project in Delta, Utah. The project is developed by ACES Delta, which is a joint venture between Mitsubishi Power Americas and Magnum Development. The project plans to use electrolysis to convert renewable energy into hydrogen and will utilize solution-mined salt caverns for seasonal, dispatchable storage of the energy. The first project,… Continue reading ACES Delta | Advanced Clean Energy Storage Project (encouraged)
