US Administration to Invest $475 Million for Decarbonization Projects

Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to USD 475 million in funding for five projects across Arizona, Kentucky, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia to accelerate decarbonization efforts on current and former mine lands.

These selected projects encompass a diverse array of clean energy technologies, including solar, microgrids, pumped storage hydropower, geothermal, and battery energy storage systems. Notably, three of the projects are situated on former Appalachian coal mines.

The remaining two projects aim to reduce fossil fuel reliance by scaling up net-zero mining operations and facilitating the production of critical materials essential for a robust, domestic renewable energy supply chain. Collectively, these initiatives are projected to generate over 3,000 high-paying jobs in construction and operations.

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Moreover, the projects are poised to foster local and regional workforce partnerships, while also contributing to local tax revenues. This support will be instrumental in bolstering essential public services and catalyzing fresh economic opportunities in communities that have long been the backbone of the nation's energy sector.

The five  decarbonization projects include:

Decarbonization Project in Arizona

This project seeks to deploy direct-use, geothermal, clean heat combined with a battery energy storage system at two active copper mines in Southeast Arizona, helping decrease the mines’ reliance on onsite thermal backup generators while supporting the annual extraction of 25 million pounds of copper, a critical material, previously considered unrecoverable. This project anticipates creating 121 construction and 12 operations jobs.

Lewis Ridge Project in Kentucky

This project proposes converting former coal mine land to a closed-loop, pumped-storage hydroelectric facility with the potential to dispatch up to eight hours of power when needed, such as during times of peak demand or extreme weather events.

Decarbonization Project in Nevada

This decarbonization project aims to develop a solar photovoltaic (PV) facility and accompanying battery energy storage system across three active gold mines in Nevada.  The project will create 300 construction jobs.

Decarbonization Project in Pennsylvania

The estimated capacity of the proposed solar power project is around 402 MW. The project plans to repurpose nearly 2,700 acres of former coal mining land to support one of the largest solar farm in USA. This project will increase regional access to clean energy and fill a critical electricity generation gap following the closure of the Homer City coal plant. The project expects to create more than 750 construction jobs and six operations jobs.

Decarbonization Project in West Virginia

The project plans to repurpose two former coal mines with a utility-scale, 250 MW solar PV system that would power approximately 39,000 West Virginia homes. These two inactive mine sites provide land and access to existing energy infrastructure that will transmit the clean solar energy the project generates to the grid. This project anticipates creating approximately 400 construction jobs.

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