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Carbon Capture Costs: FEED & pre-FEED Cost Reports

Carbon capture costs from pre-FEED and FEED studies across power, cement, steel, natural gas, hydrogen and other industrial sectors. Browse capital (capex) and operating (opex) cost estimates from publicly available engineering reports, drill down into cost buckets and line items, and compare up to three projects side-by-side.

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Southern Company / Plant Barry

Natural GasFEED· GE Gas Power· 2024-08-06Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
1,632,000t/yr
Capture efficiency
95.0%
Utilization
85.0%
Parasitic load
18.4MW
CO₂ concentration
6.7%mol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx$32.1M
Property taxes & insurance$19.9M
Maintenance material$8.9M
Operating labor$0.5M
Maintenance labor$2.5M
Admin & support labor$0.2M
▸Variable OpEx$31.4M
Water$0.9M
Solvent & chemicals$11.5M
Natural gas fuel cost$18.8M
Waste disposal$0.1M
Total Opex$63.5M

Mustang Station Power Plant

Natural GasFEED· University of Texas at Austin· 2022-01-07Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
853,644t/yr
Capture efficiency
90.0%
Utilization
52.0%
Parasitic load
46MW
CO₂ concentration
3.8%vol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx$32.6M
Property taxes & insurance$18.2M
Maintenance material$8.0M
Operating labor$3.3M
Maintenance labor$1.9M
Admin & support labor$1.2M
▸Variable OpEx$16.7M
Solvent & chemicals$3.4M
Natural gas fuel cost$9.5M
Electricity$3.8M
Total Opex$49.3M

CRC / Elk Hills Power Plant

Natural GasFEED· Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)· 2020-09-01Project page ↗Cost report ↗
CO₂ captured
1,460,000t/yr
Capture efficiency
90.0%
Utilization
95.0%
Parasitic load
35MW
CO₂ concentration
4.3%mol%
FacilityCapex BreakdownOpex BreakdownMetadata
▸Fixed OpEx—
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▸Variable OpEx—
Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.
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