Heidelberg Materials North America is pleased to announce it has finalized award negotiations with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED).
Following negotiations, OCED awarded the Mitchell Cement Plant Decarbonization Project as part of its Industrial Demonstrations Program (IDP) with $300,000 to begin Phase 1 of the project. The total OCED cost share is up to $500 million, and the initiation of Phase 1 is the first step of a multi-phased integrated project demonstration that is intended to ultimately result in the construction and operation of full-scale carbon capture, transport, and storage at the company’s new state-of-the-art cement plant in Mitchell, Indiana. The funding builds on prior awards from the DOE toward successfully completing the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) work necessary to verify the project’s technical feasibility.
The new Mitchell cement plant, which now produces more than triple its previous capacity, incorporates features to minimize energy consumption and enable the use of alternative fuels and raw materials to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The proposed project for this funding award will capture, treat and prepare for storage or use, approximately 2 million metric tons of CO2 each year from the cement plant.
