About

Project Tundra

The vision for Project Tundra is to advance next-generation carbon capture and storage technologies at the separately-owned Milton R. Young Station power generation facility. Up to 4 million metric tons of the facility’s carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions would be captured annually through the process. The CO₂ would then be safely and permanently stored in deep geologic formations approximately a mile underground.

Drone photo of the Milton R. Young Station and Nelson Lake

Million metric tons of CO₂ captured annually

800

Years of recoverable coal reserves in North Dakota

252

Billion tons of CO₂ storage capacity in North Dakota

1.4

Billion dollars of capital investment

Project Tundra is currently in the final project development phase. If constructed, it will be one of the largest CO₂ capture projects in the world.

Project Tundra will utilize the largest fully permitted CO₂ storage facility in the United States near Center, N.D.

Project Tundra is being developed by Minnkota Power Cooperative, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Kiewit.

Project Collaborators

This project is a shining example of how industries can reduce emissions while investing in baseload generation to preserve reliable, low-cost energy for consumers. - North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum

About

Milton R. Young Station

The Milton R. Young Station is a key source of electrical generation for Minnkota Power Cooperative and its members. Named for the late senator from North Dakota, the Young Station is a two-unit, lignite coal-based power plant located near Center, N.D.
Young Unit 1 has the capacity to produce 250,000 kilowatts (kW), and Young Unit 2 has a 455,000-kW generating capacity. After more than five decades of service, the facility has reached milestones in reliability and performance in recent years. An abundant, low-cost coal supply from the nearby Center Mine, owned and operated by BNI Coal, has played a key role in the plant’s success.
Both units at the Young Station are equipped with emission control technologies that meet or exceed all current state and federal air quality standards. Between 2006 and 2011, about $425 million was invested into the plant to significantly reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO₂), nitrogen oxides (NOx), mercury (Hg) and other emissions. Project Tundra would be an effort to reduce emissions further by capturing and storing CO₂.

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Environmental responsibility

Reliability and quality

Compliance and transparency

Accountability and innovation

Lignite coal-based power plant

Key source of electrical generation