Babcock & Wilcox, Black Hills Energy receive Wyoming hydrogen facility grant

Babcock & Wilcox (BW) and Black Hills (BKH) Energy have received a $16M grant from the Wyoming Energy Authority to fund the permitting, engineering and development activities for a clean hydrogen generation facility with carbon dioxide capture and sequestration at Black Hills Energy’s Neil Simpson Power Plant in Gillette, Wyo. The plant design intends to use B&W’s BrightLoop technology to produce clean energy from coal, while CO2 emissions will be sequestered, or put to beneficial use. As designed, the plant will be capable of producing 15 tons of clean hydrogen per day utilizing the BrightLoop process, which is a patented chemical looping technology. B&W’s BrightLoop chemical looping technology is part of its ClimateBright suite of decarbonization and hydrogen technologies.