PROGRAM DETAILS - U.S. Department of Energy

NETL is the only Federally owned and operated National Laboratory dedicated to
achieving the mission and goals related to basic and applied research and development of
fossil energy.
NETL operates and maintains facilities in five locations. At its Morgantown,
Pittsburgh, and Albany (OR) locations it operates state-of-the-art research facilities and
infrastructure that enable Federal scientists and engineers to collaborate with their peers
in academia and the private sector in a cooperative effort to advance scientific
understanding of key fossil energy technologies; generate new ideas and directions for
future programs; and help to develop our Nation's future scientific and energy
engineering experts. NETL's Tulsa (Southwestern Power Administration Lease) and
Fairbanks (DOE Lease/University of Alaska-Fairbanks) facilities are involved primarily
in technical program management functions and are housed in leased office space.
In total, these sites have 119 government-owned facilities and trailers providing 1.05
million gross square feet of space. The average age of active NETL facilities is 41 years.
The Replacement Plant Value (RPV) of the government owned facilities is about $465
million.
Research Facilities at NETL
Research facilities at NETL focus on providing a bridge between basic research and
development and commercial deployment of highly efficient power and energy
production systems that achieve affordable near-zero emission electric power and carbon
capture technology and sequestration of CO 2 in geologic formations. NETL research
facilities support carbon sequestration in five areas: capture; monitoring, mitigation &
verification; non-CO 2 green house gas (GHG) mitigation; and breakthrough concepts.
Additional research facilities also provide support for low-carbon fuels from coal
development.
Clean Coal Program R&D Facilities
Key facilities involved in this portion of the coal program's R&D efforts are owned,
operated, and controlled by DOE, universities, and private-sector partners. These
organizations and the facilities they control, under the guidance and direction of expert
NETL project managers, are presently supporting an integrated fossil energy research
program with a portfolio that totals 260 active projects located in every state and 40
countries with a current total value of $6.5 billion. Private-sector funding accounts for
approximately 60 percent of this total value.
* The Power Systems Development Facility (PSDF) is located in Wilsonville, Alabama
and jointly owned by DOE and Southern Company Services (SCS). Work at the
PSDF is broadening its traditional focus to include a Carbon Capture Research Center
(CCRC). The CCRC plans to host the scale-up of promising pre-, post- and oxycombustion
systems currently under development by the Nation's leading technology
producers.
* Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnerships consist of a national network of
companies and professionals working to support sequestration efforts. This network
is working toward the deployment of a new national infrastructure dedicated to