Basin Electric’s Carbon Storage Study Moves on to Geophysical Survey
Posted on Aug 26, 2020 in Climate Change, Environmental, Project Development | Comments Off on Basin Electric’s Carbon Storage Study Moves on to Geophysical Survey
Work toward a commercial-scale geological carbon dioxide storage complex near Gillette, Wyoming moved to the next stage today with a geophysical survey covering about 9 square miles of rural land around Basin Electric Power Cooperative’s (Basin) Dry Fork Station power plant. Basin and other partners are working to develop a site near Dry Fork Station and the Wyoming Integrated Test Center to store over 50 million metric tons of CO2 underground. The three-year, $19.1 million project is the third phase under the Department of Energy’s Carbon Storage Assurance Facility Enterprise initiative, which seeks to help mitigate CO2 emissions from consumption of fossil fuels.
