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U.S. Senator John Hoeven (R-North Dakota), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, held a virtual roundtable with members of the Lignite Energy Council on July 15 to discuss his efforts to support coal in the nation’s energy mix and ensure the country continues to harness this abundant energy resource. This includes:
“We need baseload power in this country, and coal is an abundant, always-available fuel that can meet this essential need,” said Hoeven. “Our efforts are about recognizing and appropriately valuing coal’s contributions to the grid’s reliability and resiliency. Further, through CCUS technologies and the 45Q tax credit, we can both reduce emissions and create an additional revenue stream for coal producers.”
Hoeven has been working to ensure coal’s role as a reliable source of baseload power is properly valued. To this end, the senator:
In order to advance CCUS technology in North Dakota, Hoeven has worked through his role on the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Committee to fund the Plains Carbon Dioxide Reduction (PCOR) Partnership, which is led by the University of North Dakota’s Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC), as well as the CarbonSAFE Initiative. This Department of Energy program awarded $17 million to EERC earlier this year for Project Tundra, bringing the total funding Hoeven has secured for the project to approximately $43 million.
Further, the senator has worked closely with the White House, Department of the Treasury and the Department of Energy to get the 45Q tax credit implemented in a manner that will make CCUS projects more commercially-viable: