DEFE0032701
Cooperative Agreement
Overview
Grant Description
Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – Comprehensive facility to basin scale methane emissions measurements and measurement informed inventory development in the Northeast United States.
The objectives of the proposed work are to collect, synthesize, and make publicly available multi-scale methane emissions data from the Northeast United States.
Specific objectives include: design and deploy consistent, accurate, granular and transparent multi-scale methane emissions measurements across varied spatial and temporal scales, to inform state and federal methane emission inventories, construct measurement-informed emission inventories that integrate site-level (“bottom-up approaches”) and regional (“top-down approaches”) measurements with operational data, develop models for comprehensive multi-scale emissions reconciliation including reconciling top-down approaches with bottom-up approaches, and measurement informed inventories with official inventories (e.g., GHGI), coordinate with other regional measurement campaigns to develop nationally consistent emissions inventories and enable supply chain analyzes, and create comprehensive education, training, and workforce development programs for stakeholders in the region (industry, civil society, and government) through project partners.
The objectives of the proposed work are to collect, synthesize, and make publicly available multi-scale methane emissions data from the Northeast United States.
Specific objectives include: design and deploy consistent, accurate, granular and transparent multi-scale methane emissions measurements across varied spatial and temporal scales, to inform state and federal methane emission inventories, construct measurement-informed emission inventories that integrate site-level (“bottom-up approaches”) and regional (“top-down approaches”) measurements with operational data, develop models for comprehensive multi-scale emissions reconciliation including reconciling top-down approaches with bottom-up approaches, and measurement informed inventories with official inventories (e.g., GHGI), coordinate with other regional measurement campaigns to develop nationally consistent emissions inventories and enable supply chain analyzes, and create comprehensive education, training, and workforce development programs for stakeholders in the region (industry, civil society, and government) through project partners.
Awardee
Funding Goals
THE PURPOSE OF THIS FOSSIL ENERGY AND CARBON MANAGEMENT (FECM) ON BEHALF OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT TITLED, “INFLATION REDUCTION ACT (IRA) – METHANE EMISSIONS REDUCTION PROGRAM OIL AND GAS METHANE MONITORING AND MITIGATION”, IS TO MAKE FUNDS AVAILABLE TO A VARIETY OF ENTITIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF MITIGATING METHANE EMISSIONS FROM MARGINAL CONVENTIONAL WELLS (MCWS) AND OTHER OIL AND NATURAL GAS ASSETS; ACCELERATING THE COMMERCIALIZATION, SCALE-UP AND APPLICATION OF INNOVATIVE METHANE EMISSIONS REDUCTION TECHNOLOGIES; AND ADVANCING THE CHARACTERIZATION AND REDUCTION OF METHANE EMISSIONS THROUGH MULTI-SCALE, MEASUREMENT-INFORMED DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS.
Grant Program (CFDA)
Awarding Agency
Funding Agency
Place of Performance
Austin,
Texas
78759-5321
United States
Geographic Scope
Single Zip Code
University Of Texas At Austin was awarded
Northeast Methane Emissions Measurement Inventory Development Project
Cooperative Agreement DEFE0032701
worth $20,000,000
from the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management in January 2025 with work to be completed primarily in Austin Texas United States.
The grant
has a duration of 1 year and
was awarded through assistance program 81.089 Fossil Energy Research and Development.
The Cooperative Agreement was awarded through grant opportunity Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – Methane Emissions Reduction Program Oil and Gas Methane Monitoring and Mitigation.
Status
(Complete)
Last Modified 6/24/25
Period of Performance
1/14/25
Start Date
12/31/25
End Date
Funding Split
$20.0M
Federal Obligation
$0.0
Non-Federal Obligation
$20.0M
Total Obligated
Activity Timeline
Transaction History
Modifications to DEFE0032701
Additional Detail
Award ID FAIN
DEFE0032701
SAI Number
None
Award ID URI
SAI EXEMPT
Awardee Classifications
Public/State Controlled Institution Of Higher Education
Awarding Office
892433 NATIONAL ENERGY TECHNOLOGY LABORATORY
Funding Office
892404 FOSSIL ENERGY AND CARBON MANAGEMENT
Awardee UEI
V6AFQPN18437
Awardee CAGE
9B981
Performance District
TX-37
Senators
John Cornyn
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
Modified: 6/24/25