KENTUCKY: Center project receives $1.3M in DOE funding
The University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) received $1.3M from the DOE’s National Energy Technology Lab to develop technology that will capture carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere. This direct air capture project will leverage technology and innovation previously developed at UK by CAER’s Power Generation Research Group. CAER will be developing an intensified, cost-effective and scalable process using aqueous potassium hydroxide as capture solvent for direct air capture.
Partnering with CAER on the project will be Vanderbilt University, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the Low-Carbon Resources Initiative (LCRI), and Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company (LG&E and KU) — part of the PPL Corporation family of companies. PPL is an anchor sponsor of LCRI, a joint, five-year effort led by EPRI and the Gas Technology Institute (GTI) focusing on identifying, developing and demonstrating affordable pathways to economy-wide decarbonization. In 2021, PPL President and CEO Vincent Sorgi was named chair of the LCRI Board Working Group.