Pelican Renewables LLC (Stockton, California) will receive $45,221,386 in CarbonSafe grant funding for its Pelican Carbon Sequestration Hub through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The DOE Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management announced Round 3 project selections for its Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA 2711) Carbon Storage Validation and Testing –CarbonSafe.
Environmental engineers, geologists, and hydro-geologists at SCS Engineers collaborated with the Pelican team to prepare their DOE grant submission for feasibility and sustainability. SCS Engineers was responsible for the Class VI Permit Application Submittal that made possible the grant application, assisted with the preparation of the grant application itself, and will be performing engineering and scientific analyses that support the site characterization process.
The Pelican Carbon Sequestration Hub will be a regional carbon dioxide (CO2) storage hub at the island of Rindge Tract in the eastern portion of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in California. The hub will be accessible by barge and from the Port of Stockton. The Port of Stockton is accessible by rail. CarbonSafe funding supports the front-end engineering design work for the barge CO2 transport system and related infrastructure. Pelican will also evaluate its candidate CO2 sources from a techno-economic standpoint and examine environmental, energy equity, environmental justice, and social-license-to-operate criteria.
To provide the safety and security information to apprise Class VI injection well permitting and to prepare the plan for subsequent development of the storage field, the Pelican team will undertake environmental review work and seek to obtain other necessary permits. Three characterization wells on Rindge Tract and a suite of logs, tests, measurements, and analyses will help characterize three target sandstone formations and their seals while optimizing the potential for stacked storage at the site.
To achieve net-zero emissions by mid-century, the U.S. is working toward capturing, transporting, and permanently storing hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide each year. Working with firms such as Pelican Renewables LLC, the DOE provides grants to build the infrastructure to store large quantities of carbon dioxide in geologic storage facilities. All facilities or CO2 hubs are designed, built, monitored, and operated safely and responsibly, meeting all federal, state, and local regulatory laws.
Projects such as the Pelican Carbon Sequestration Hub will expand the nation’s CO2 storage infrastructure needed to significantly and responsibly reduce CO2 emissions from industrial operations and power plants, as well as from legacy emissions in the atmosphere. Large-scale, responsible deployment of carbon management technologies is crucial to meeting the U.S. climate goal of achieving a net-zero emissions economy by 2050.
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