Sec. 114. Carbon utilization
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Subtitle F of title IX of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 ( 42 U.S.C. 16291 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary shall carry out a program of research, development, and demonstration for carbon utilization. The program shall— assess and monitor potential changes in life cycle carbon dioxide emissions, and other environmental safety indicators of new technologies, practices, processes, or methods, used in enhanced hydrocarbon recovery; identify and evaluate novel uses for carbon, including the conversion of carbon dioxide for commercial and industrial products, such as— chemicals; plastics; building materials; fuels; cement; or products of coal utilization in power systems (as such term is defined in section 962(e)), or other applications; and identify and develop alternative uses for coal, including products derived from carbon engineering, carbon fiber, and coal conversion methods.
For activities under this section, there are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary— $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2021; $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2022; $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2023; $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2024; and $75,000,000 for fiscal year 2025. . No later than one year following the date of enactment of the Clean Energy Future Through Innovation Act of 2020 , the Secretary shall enter into an agreement with the National Academies to conduct a study assessing the barriers and opportunities related to commercializing the utilization of carbon dioxide in the United States.
Such study shall— analyze the technical feasibility and related challenges to commercial utilization of carbon dioxide, including— creating a national system of carbon dioxide pipelines; mitigating environmental impacts; and regional economic challenges and opportunities; identify potential markets, industries, or sectors that may benefit from greater access to commercial carbon dioxide; assess the current state of infrastructure and any necessary updates to allow for the integration of safe and reliable carbon dioxide transportation, utilization, and storage; estimate the economic impact of a well-integrated national carbon dioxide pipeline system; assess the global status and progress of carbon utilization technologies (both chemical and biological) in practice today that utilize waste carbon (including carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, methane, and biogas) from power generation, biofuels production, and other industrial processes; identify emerging technologies and approaches for carbon utilization that show promise for scale-up, demonstration, deployment, and commercialization; analyze the factors associated with making carbon utilization technologies viable at a commercial scale, including carbon waste stream availability, economics, market capacity, energy, and lifecycle requirements; assess the major technical challenges associated with increasing the commercial viability of carbon reuse technologies, and identify the research and development questions that will address those challenges; assess current research efforts, including basic, applied, engineering, and computational, that are addressing these challenges and identify gaps in the current research portfolio; and develop a comprehensive research agenda that addresses both long- and short-term research needs and opportunities.
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