The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Pathways to Commercial Liftoff is a department-wide initiative to strengthen engagement between the public and private sectors to accelerate the commercialization and deployment of key clean energy technologies. The reports provide the private sector and other industry partners a valuable, engagement-driven resource on how and when certain technologies—beginning with advanced nuclear, carbon management, clean hydrogen, and long duration energy storage—can reach full scale deployment.

DOE released the fourth in its series of Pathways to Commercial Liftoff Reports focused on carbon management in April 2023. This latest report discusses the carbon management ecosystem, including point-source carbon capture, utilization, and storage and carbon dioxide removal technologies as well as the real but solvable barriers to carbon management technology deployment at scale.