Full Title: Transport Infrastructure for Carbon Capture and Storage
Author(s): Elizabeth Abramson, Dane McFarlane, Jeff Brown
Publisher(s): Great Plains Institute, Regional Carbon Capture Deployment Initiative
Publication Date: June 8, 2020
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Description (excerpt):
As seen in the maps included in this white paper, many of the industrial and power facilities in the United States are located in regions without significant deep saline or hydrocarbon geologic formations. Long distance transport infrastructure can unlock the economic potential for these facilities to sell captured CO2 and earn tax credits for storage under Section 45Q. CO2 transport infrastructure achieves beneficial economies of scale with higher volumes of CO2 delivered. Large trunk lines designed to carry CO2 from many facilities toward many storage sites can achieve a lower transport cost over long distances than lines with capacity designed for only one or a handful of capture projects. Long-term, coordinated planning on regional CO2 transport corridors will result in optimized, regional scale infrastructure that minimizes costs, land use, and construction requirements while maximizing decarbonization across industrial and power sectors throughout the United States. This whitepaper presents the results of a two-year modeling effort to identify such regional scale CO2 transport infrastructure that would serve existing facilities and allow participation by new capture projects and facilities in the future.