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The United States Energy Department canceled $ 3.7 billion on Friday in prizes for their clean energy demonstrations office, including $ 540 million in grants for two carbon capture projects planned by Calpine.
The canceled prizes were mainly for carbon and abduction and other decarbonization projects, according to DOE. The affected companies include PPL Corp., Ørsted and Exxon Mobil Corp.
Calpine grants were for CCS projects at 550 MW Gas SUTTER ELECTRICAL CENTER to Yuba City, California and its 810-MW Baytown power plant In Baytown, Texas.
“After a thorough and individualized financial review of each award, the DOE found that these projects did not advance the energy needs of the North -American people, were not economically viable and would not generate a positive profitability of the taxpayer’s investment,” Dou said.
Sixteen of the 24 finished prizes were signed between the election of President Donald Trump in November and January 20, according to Doe.
DOE evaluated the canceled prizes below A review process exposed earlier this month. The department said it is reviewing 179 awards that total more than $ 15 billion in financial assistance.
“DOE prioritizes large -scale commercial projects that require more detailed information about the adjudicators for the initial phase of this review, but this process can be extended to other DOE program offices as the reviews progress,” the Department said.
Doe created the Office of Net Energy Demonstrations At the end of 2021 to manage $ 27 billion in funding appropriate by the Investment and Infrastructure jobs Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, according to a Mid -November report from the United States Government Accounting Office.
This is followed by a list of Doe of the Canceled Awards announced on Friday.
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DOE’s decision to terminate the awards was “a look”, according to Steven Nadel, director of the American Council for an efficient energy economy. “Blocking home plants in obsolete technology is not a recipe for future competitiveness or re -doing jobs in the North -American communities,” Nadel said in a statement.
Prize cancellations are an “important step in the national deployment of carbon management technologies,” said Jessie Stollalark, the executive director of the carbon capture coalition. “To guarantee the projects funded by the Bipartisan Investment and Investment Works Law Advancement of Commercialization It is necessary to demonstrate technology through the generation of fossil fuel energy and the key industrial sectors, including the generation of energy, cement and basic chemicals.”
DOE’s decision is a blow for North -American competitiveness, new jobs and cleaner air, according to Iliana Paul, Deputy Director of Industrial Transformation at the Sierra Club.
“U.S. workers, Fenceline communities and future companies have had the rug that was removed from below,” he said.
