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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%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$1.10B

CO2 Technology—

▸Indirect Field Costs—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation$192.4M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$1.29B

Calpine / Deer Park Energy Center

Natural GasFEED· Calpine· 2024-05-30Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

6,200,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

90.0%

Parasitic load

184MW

CO₂ concentration

5.2%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$1.32B

Civil structural work—

▸Indirect Field Costs$754.3M

Indirect Field Costs—

▸Contingency & Escalation$303.0M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$2.38B

Holcim / Ste. Genevieve Cement Plant

CementFEED· University of Illinois· 2024-08-29Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

3,056,339t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

85.0%

Parasitic load

60MW

CO₂ concentration

20.3%mol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$900.4M

Material Cost—

▸Indirect Field Costs$517.7M

Engineering, Construction Management, Home Office and Fee—

▸Contingency & Escalation$250.5M

Contingency—

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$71.0M

Financing Cost—

Pre-production Cost—

Inventory Capital—

Total Capex$1.74B