If you were wondering what type of tech could get a boost from Obama’s efforts to limit power plant emissions, see Skyonic. The startup’s new plant will soon go under construction.
Skyonic, a startup that turns carbon emissions into baking soda and other chemicals, plans to build its first commercial plant this Summer and has raised a whopper of a $128 million round.
Utility American Electric Power plans to announce on Thursday that it will suspend its project to capture the carbon emissions, at a commercial scale, from a coal plant in West Virginia, reports the New York Times.
The UK government unveiled major spending cuts today, taking bites out of welfare benefits and other public programs while pledging to provide £2.2 billion pounds (about $3.5 billion USD) for renewable energy and carbon capture projects and preserving a feed-in tariff for solar power.
Calera Corp., a startup working to capture emissions from industrial flues and recycle it into pavement and building materials, has won a $19.9 million vote of confidence in a government program for projects recycling carbon emissions in to useful projects.
If six research projects awarded funding by the Department of Energy this week pan out, they could enable tons of captured carbon to be put to use as a building block for chemicals, fuels, concrete and other products.
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A new report from the International Energy Agency urges the world’s governments to invest $20 billion in near-term, full-scale carbon capture and storage demonstrations.