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Released June 05, 2025 | SUGAR LAND
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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Last week, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced the cancellation of 24 project awards worth $3.7 billion, which primarily included funding for carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) and decarbonization initiatives.
Noting that 16 of the 24 awards were signed between Election Day and January 20 (the start of the second Trump administration), the DOE said it found that these projects "failed to advance the energy needs of the American people, were not economically viable and would not generate a positive return on investment of taxpayer dollars."
The termination of the awards was in keeping with the DOE's new "Ensuring Responsibility for Financial Assistance" policy for evaluating financial assistance on a case-by-case basis to identity waste of taxpayer dollars, according to the department. The DOE said in May it had begun requesting additional information needed to evaluate 179 awards, worth more than $15 billion.
The 24 cancelled awards range from $4.3 million to $500 million for projects in the Metals & Minerals, Power, Chemical Processing, Industrial Manufacturing, Food & Beverage and Pulp & Paper industries, according to an analysis by Industrial Info.
Click on the image at right for a graph detailing the cancelled project grants.
Two of the largest awards were aimed at the cement sector.
Heidelberg Materials (Heidelberg, Germany) had been awarded a $500 million demonstration grant to help it construct a carbon capture plant utilizing Mitsubishi amine process technology to sequester 95% carbon dioxide emissions at its Mitchell Cement & Quarry in Indiana. The project would capture about 2 million tons per year of carbon dioxide. Radio station WFYI quoted a Heidelberg spokesperson as saying the cement maker was evaluating what the award cancellation would mean for the project and how the company might appeal the decision.
Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Metals & Minerals Project and Plant databases can click here for the project report and click here for the plant profile.
Another $500 million award was terminated for National Cement Company Incorporated's (Birmingham, Alabama) CCS project at its Portland cement plant in Lebec, California. In addition to carbon capture and storage, the Lebec Net Zero Cement Plant Project would include replacing fossil fuels with biomass and replacing clinker with a low-carbon calcine clay to produce cement. Subscribers can click here for the project reports and here for the plant profile.
In Texas, the DOE chopped more than $1 billion in grant funding for four projects. These include:
Subscribers can click here for all of the project reports mentioned in this article and click here for the plant profiles.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is the leading provider of industrial market intelligence. Since 1983, IIR has provided comprehensive research, news and analysis on the industrial process, manufacturing and energy related industries. IIR's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) helps companies identify and pursue trends across multiple markets with access to real, qualified and validated plant and project opportunities. Across the world, IIR is tracking more than 200,000 current and future projects worth $17.8 Trillion (USD).
Noting that 16 of the 24 awards were signed between Election Day and January 20 (the start of the second Trump administration), the DOE said it found that these projects "failed to advance the energy needs of the American people, were not economically viable and would not generate a positive return on investment of taxpayer dollars."
The termination of the awards was in keeping with the DOE's new "Ensuring Responsibility for Financial Assistance" policy for evaluating financial assistance on a case-by-case basis to identity waste of taxpayer dollars, according to the department. The DOE said in May it had begun requesting additional information needed to evaluate 179 awards, worth more than $15 billion.
The 24 cancelled awards range from $4.3 million to $500 million for projects in the Metals & Minerals, Power, Chemical Processing, Industrial Manufacturing, Food & Beverage and Pulp & Paper industries, according to an analysis by Industrial Info.
Heidelberg Materials (Heidelberg, Germany) had been awarded a $500 million demonstration grant to help it construct a carbon capture plant utilizing Mitsubishi amine process technology to sequester 95% carbon dioxide emissions at its Mitchell Cement & Quarry in Indiana. The project would capture about 2 million tons per year of carbon dioxide. Radio station WFYI quoted a Heidelberg spokesperson as saying the cement maker was evaluating what the award cancellation would mean for the project and how the company might appeal the decision.
Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Metals & Minerals Project and Plant databases can click here for the project report and click here for the plant profile.
Another $500 million award was terminated for National Cement Company Incorporated's (Birmingham, Alabama) CCS project at its Portland cement plant in Lebec, California. In addition to carbon capture and storage, the Lebec Net Zero Cement Plant Project would include replacing fossil fuels with biomass and replacing clinker with a low-carbon calcine clay to produce cement. Subscribers can click here for the project reports and here for the plant profile.
In Texas, the DOE chopped more than $1 billion in grant funding for four projects. These include:
- $375 million for Eastman Chemical's (Kingsport, Tennessee) molecular plastic recycling plant in Longview; subscribers can click here for the project report and here for the plant profile
- Nearly $332 million for Exxon Mobil Corporation's (Spring, Texas) blue hydrogen and carbon capture storage addition at its Baytown Olefins complex. Subscribers can click here for the project report and here for the plant profile
- $270 million for Calpine Corporation's (Houston, Texas) carbon capture and storage project at its Baytown Energy Center. Subscribers can click here for the project report and here for the plant profile
- $99 million for Orsted A/S's (Fredericia, Denmark) Star e-Methanol project in Chambers County to use captured carbon dioxide from a local industrial facility to produce e-methanol and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from hard-to-electrify sectors like shipping. Subscribers can click here for the project report and here for the plant profile.
Subscribers can click here for all of the project reports mentioned in this article and click here for the plant profiles.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is the leading provider of industrial market intelligence. Since 1983, IIR has provided comprehensive research, news and analysis on the industrial process, manufacturing and energy related industries. IIR's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) helps companies identify and pursue trends across multiple markets with access to real, qualified and validated plant and project opportunities. Across the world, IIR is tracking more than 200,000 current and future projects worth $17.8 Trillion (USD).
