DoE approves $50m for carbon capture technology to be tested in coal-rich ‘Carbon Valley’ Coal mining in Wyoming. (Image courtesy of the ITC). The Department of Energy of the United States approved $51 million for the continuation of Membrane Technology and Research’s Phase III studies of a large-scale pilot carbon capture project to be hosted at the Wyoming Integrated Test Center (ITC). The ITC is a carbon capture, utilization and storage testing facility located in the coal-rich “Carbon Valley” where 5% of the exhaust gas from the Dry Fork coal-fired plant goes into a manifold system, providing ‘plug and play’ access for researchers.