DCC East Project LLC (Grand Forks, North Dakota) plans to construct a dedicated, commercial large-scale geologic carbon storage facility to store up to 80 million metric tons of CO2 in support of Project Tundra.

Project Tundra is an initiative that would capture up to 95% of CO2 emissions from Minnkota’s Milton R. Young Station (MRYS), a 675-megawatt two-unit, coal-based power plant located approximately 6 miles southeast of Center, North Dakota. Captured CO2 will be transported along a 0.25-mile flowline to injection wells located on Minnkota property and injected at a rate of approximately 4 million metric tons per year over 20 years into deep saline formations for secure geologic storage.

DCC East will lead efforts to drill and complete the three injection wells and one monitoring well, update and finalize risk and mitigation plans, install surface equipment and complete collection of baseline data, complete all other facility infrastructure, and obtain Class VI authorization to inject from the North Dakota Industrial Commission.