Scottish carbon capture company takes root in Wyoming coal country

On a recent summer afternoon, Zoe Jane Morrison, a social scientist from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, was driving around Gillette looking for office supplies.

She’s part of a team of researchers utilizing the carbon dioxide from the flue stream at the Basin Electric Dry Fork power plant near Gillette for other products. There is $10 million available from the NRG COSIA Carbon XPRIZE competition for the group that captures the most gas for the most value.

But the UK academics are also looking beyond the end of the Wyoming competition in 2020. Carbon Capture Machine recently filed as a Limited Liability Company in the state, with plans to utilize the state’s Integrated Test Center at Dry Fork, with skilled workers in the construction and maintenance industries, to launch their company.

Heather Richards 307-266-0592, [email protected]

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