Summary/Abstract
This bill expands Department of Energy (DOE) research, development, and demonstration programs for fossil energy. Specifically, the bill authorizes DOE programs regarding:
- carbon capture technologies for power plants, including technologies for coal and natural gas;
- carbon storage, including to develop and maintain mapping tools and resources that assess the capacity of geologic storage formations in the United States;
- carbon utilization, including to assess and monitor potential changes in life cycle carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions;
- advanced energy systems to reduce emissions from and improve the efficiency of fossil fuel power generation;
- developing and assessing methods to separate and recover rare earth elements from coal and byproduct streams;
- identifying the environmental, health, and safety impacts of methane hydrate development;
- carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere;
- methane leak detection and mitigation; and
- identifying and evaluating novel uses for light hydrocarbons produced during oil and shale gas production.