Babcock & Wilcox Scores $15.99 Million Wyoming Energy Authority Grant to Reduce CO2 emissions at Gillette, WY Coal Power Plant

Jan 26

Babcock & Wilcox (B&W), in partnership with Black Hills Energy (BHE), has been awarded a $15,995,451 grant from the Wyoming Energy Authority’s (WEA) Energy Matching Funds program to convert coal from the WyoDak mine into low-carbon hydrogen and single-stream CO2. With the award, BHE and B&W will complete the planning and design package for a facility that will demonstrate the groundbreaking chemical looping process, BrightLoop, to produce fifteen metric tons of hydrogen a day. The final completed project will serve as the foundation for expanded hydrogen production using Powder River Basin coal, not only from the WyoDak mine but from other sites across Wyoming, creating new value streams for one of Wyoming’s legacy resources.

This low-carbon hydrogen technology is a catalyst for helping the industrial world transition to a more sustainable future, supporting the international goal of net-zero CO2 emissions.

Kalbacher Associates (KA) was pleased to be part of the grant team that drafted the winning application.

Karl Kalbacher

Karl Kalbacher is President of Kalbacher Associates (KA) and directly manages the highly successful Grant Practice Group. Karl’s grant experience is significant, having successfully secured funding from USDOT, DOJ, DOI, DOC, DOE, DOD, DOL, HUD, DHS, USDA, and EPA.

Since 2015, KA has secured over $1.160 billion in federal grants and below-market fixed-rate loans for clients in the areas of infrastructure, economic development, energy, hazard mitigation, housing, environmental protection, and transportation.

Karl is a leading expert in areas of environmental regulatory compliance and economic development policy and practice. A nationally recognized Brownfields redevelopment expert, Karl is a Professional Geologist who has developed and managed environmental cooperative agreements and finance programs at both the state and local levels. Karl has extensive experience managing economic development programs and energy conservation sustainability projects and has a proven record of securing state and federal grants.

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