Sioux Falls, South Dakota, based Poet has partnered (Feb. 13, 2025) with an infrastructure company to move carbon dioxide from a bioprocessing facility in Fairmont, Nebraska, to permanent underground storage.
Under the arrangement, the Tallgrass Trailblazer carbon dioxide pipeline will transport the bioCO2 captured at Poet’s bioprocessing plant to underground sequestration in Wyoming.
Tallgrass is in the process of converting a natural gas pipeline to transport the CO2, minimizing the need to build additional pipeline infrastructure. The Trailblazer project is under construction and expected to begin commercial operations this year (2025), which will enable near-term connectivity of POET Bioprocessing – Fairmont.
Capturing and sequestering bioCO2 from the bioethanol production process lowers the carbon intensity of the final product.
Jeff Broin, POET Founder and CEO, says carbon capture is a “tremendous opportunity to create significant value for farmers and bioethanol producers while strengthening rural communities and counties in Nebraska and across the Midwest.” As part of this agreement, he said POET will support additional direct funding to the landowners who have agreed to site the pipeline on their property, as well as to the communities that are hosting the infrastructure.
Alison Nelson is the Segment President of CO2 Business Development and Origination at Tallgrass. She said they are “excited to be collaborating with POET in Nebraska and are proud that our work with them will broadly benefit the Nebraskan communities associated with the project and continue to add value across the state’s bioeconomy.”
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