The University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC), Minnkota Power Cooperative, Allete Clean Energy, and BNI Energy on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding to work together on a new carbon capture utilization and storage project dubbed “Project Tundra.”
Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.), a vocal supporter of clean coal technologies, attended the MOU signing. “This memorandum today formalizes the partnership on Project Tundra and brings together Minnkota and Allete expertise with the EERC’s innovative research to develop the clean coal technologies of the future,” Hoeven said in a press release.
Project Tundra seeks to “develop next-generation, advanced, full-plant scrubbing technologies to retrofit existing plants to capture CO2, which can then be sequestered or used in enhanced oil recovery,” the release says.
The groups will seek funding for the project from the U.S. Department of Energy.
