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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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Prairie State Generating

CoalFEED· University of Illinois· 2022-09-03Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

7,676,700t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

90.0%

Parasitic load

—MW

CO₂ concentration

11.4%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$1.89B

CO2 Capture System—

▸Indirect Field Costs—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$228.5M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$2.12B

CLECO / Brame Energy Center Madison 3 Unit

CoalFEED· Cleco Power· 2025-03-25

CO₂ captured

4,280,000t/yr

Capture efficiency

95.0%

Utilization

80.0%

Parasitic load

—MW

CO₂ concentration

14.1%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$667.2M

Absorber—

▸Indirect Field Costs$509.3M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Contingency & Escalation$120.7M

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

Total Capex$1.30B

Holcim / Portland Cement Plant

Cementpre-FEED· Electricore· 2023-01-31Project page ↗Cost report ↗

CO₂ captured

1,733,750t/yr

Capture efficiency

90.0%

Utilization

—

Parasitic load

76MW

CO₂ concentration

10.1%vol%

Facility Capex Breakdown Opex Breakdown Metadata

▸Direct Field Costs$292.8M

Modularization—

▸Indirect Field Costs$91.1M

BEC + Engineering, Construction, Management, Home Office & Contractor Premiums, Allowances & Freight, and Process & Project Contingencies—

▸Contingency & Escalation—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Interest During Construction—

Report did not provide a further cost breakdown.

▸Owners Cost$27.6M

Pre-Production Costs, Inventory Capital, Financing Costs and Other Owner Costs—

Total Capex$411.5M