The University of Kentucky announced Wednesday that its Center for Applied Energy Research (CAER) has received a $2.4 million five-year extension to its U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center grant. “CAER is a global leader in developing carbon capture and storage technologies,” UK President Eli Capilouto said in a release. “This grant will help advance promising research and development in this area, as UK CAER and its industry partners in Kentucky, across the nation and throughout the world seek sustainable energy solutions.”
CERC was launched in 2009 to enable joint clean energy research and development activities by the U.S. Department of Energy and China’s Ministry of Science and Technology, as well as the Chinese National Energy Administration. CAER has been involved with CERC’s Advanced Coal Technology Consortium since its inception.
“This grant will help maintain UK CAER’s international leadership in developing and advancing carbon capture technologies,” CAER Director Rodney Andrews said in a release. “The development of proven and economical clean coal technologies is crucial to sustaining economic and community development and improved quality of life in Kentucky and in communities throughout the world.”
Working as a member of CERC, CAER has pursued research into large-scale post-combustion CCUS technology, and microalgae bio-sequestration of CO2.