Energy Innovation Program, Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage - Call 1: Front-End Engineering Design Studies

Budget 2021 proposed $319 million over seven years for innovation in Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS). These funds will bring together businesses, academia, non-profits, industry, government, and federal laboratories on the path to net-zero emissions by 2050.

This is the first call for CCUS project proposals by the Office of Energy Research and Development (OERD) with a focus on Front-End Engineering Design studies. Future calls will be announced on the OERD Energy Innovation Program web page.

1.1 Call overview: Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) Studies

Although CCUS technologies have been deployed and demonstrated at large scale at various sites in Canada - such as the Quest and Boundary Dam projects - the application of CCUS across industry remains nascent, with a limited number of commercial scale facilities in operation globally. To ensure that CCUS technologies have an opportunity to be deployed broadly in industries that have limited options to decarbonize by 2050, more facilities need to be demonstrated at scale.

A critical and costly step in this process is completing a FEED study. Performing a FEED study helps reduce the technical and commercial risk of a project to the point where an investment decision can be made to proceed with construction. It also provides an opportunity to evaluate and benchmark near commercial technologies helping them to come to market