Last week, the first team from the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition onsite at the Wyoming Integrated Test Center (ITC) in Gillette, began taking flue gas from Dry Fork Station.
The team, CO2Concrete from UCLA Samueli School of Engineering and experienced professionals in energy and environmental sectors, is now using CO2 from the flue gas to manufacture a low-carbon concrete-equivalent material.
“The XPRIZE is setting a high bar for success,” said Jim Ford, operation manager at the ITC. “Carbon capture is a weighty task in itself, but what do we do with it once it’s captured? This prize is looking for a way to take that CO2 and transform it into a usable product. It is changing the dynamic of CCUS (carbon capture, utilization, and storage).”
Additional teams competing for the Carbon XPRIZE will be arriving for testing at the ITC in the coming months.
