ION Clean Energy

Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, ION Clean Energy has developed a transformative carbon capture technology that is particularly effective in capturing CO2 emissions from natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) flue gas streams. ION’s solution captures between 95% to over 99% of CO2 emissions with fast kinetics and low energy use, is exceptionally resistant to oxidative degradation and remarkably stable, and has extremely low emissions. ION has over 14,000 hours of successful performance testing at the National Carbon Capture Center in Alabama and Technology Centre Mongstad in Norway, the world’s largest and most advanced CO2 capture test facility. ION is the carbon capture technology featured at Calpine’s Sutter Decarbonization Project, a full-scale carbon capture demonstration project at its Sutter Energy Center which recently executed a cost share agreement with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED). The Sutter Decarbonization Project is designed to capture 95% of existing carbon dioxide emissions enabling the Sutter Energy Center to produce firm, dispatchable, low-carbon electricity. ION is also operating its custom-built, 10 TPD Enterprise Pilot Project at Calpine’s Los Medanos Energy Center in Pittsburg, CA. The pilot began operation in September 2023 without delays and has continued to demonstrate extremely impressive results on a low CO2, high O2 NGCC flue gas since commissioning began.