NTIG Active Projects
The New Technology Implementation Grant Program offers grants to assist in the implementation of new technologies to reduce emissions of pollutants from facilities and other stationary sources in Texas.
New Technology Implementation Grant (NTIG) Active Projects
(does not include projects funded and subsequently canceled)
Total Grant Amount
Application Number
2014-8-0002-NG
Project Category
Electricity Storage
Project Description
Austin Energy is the owner and operator of the utility-scale Energy Storage System (ESS), that has an integrated lithium-ion (li-ion) battery system, providing 1.5 megawatts (MW) of electric output and storing up to 3.0 megawatt-hours (MWh) of energy. AE has contracted for an adjacent 2.6 MW solar PV facility. Both facilities are located at AE's Kingsbury substation (KB), located in east Austin. The system will reduce demand during periods of peak energy use.
Phase
Operational
Location
Austin, TX
Area
Austin
Grant Amount
$1,000,000.00
Application Number
2023-08-0005-NG
Project Category
Oil and Gas
Project Description
Colt Midstream, LLC is the owner and operator of the Huckabay Gas Processing Plant located in Erath County, Texas. The project consists of repowering two of the plant’s four Fairbanks Morse natural gas engine drivers with two newer, more efficient, and lower emissions natural gas engines to reduce National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) criteria pollutant emissions from the facility. Colt Midstream, LLC will also install a new regenerative heater to compensate for the reduced heat production associated with the repowering of the original natural gas engines. Combined emissions produced from the repowered engines and new regenerative heater will result in less NAAQS criteria pollutants as compared to those produced from the original engines.
Phase
Implementation
Location
Erath County
Area
Houston
Grant Amount
$1,230,027.02
Reports
Application Number
2023-08-0006-NG
Project Category
Replacing Natural Gas Engine Compressors
Project Description
Project Description: Colt Midstream, LLC is the owner and operator of the Ranger Compressor Station located in Eastland County, Texas. The project consists of replacing two of the station’s four natural gas engine compressors used in natural gas storage compression services with two remanufactured, more efficient and lower emissions rich burn natural gas engines to reduce National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) criteria pollutant emissions from the facility.
Phase
Pre-Implementation
Location
Ranger, TX
Area
Eastland County
Grant Amount
$596,504.07
Reports
Application Number
2016-08-0002-NG
Project Category
Electricity Storage
Project Description
CPS Energy’s project consists of a 10-megawatt MW /10-megawatt hour MWh lithium ion battery energy storage system (BESS). The BESS is collocated with a 5 MW utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) facility located in San Antonio. Solar energy is captured by the PV facility and is stored by the BESS and delivered back to the electric grid. The Project allows emission reductions by shifting clean, renewable energy to peak hours when energy demand is the highest, thereby displacing fossil fuel generation. The Project additionally provides emission reduction by supplying frequency regulation to the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) grid.
Phase
Operational
Location
San Antonio, TX
Area
San Antonio
Grant Amount
$3,000,000.00
Application Number
2023-08-0004-NG
Project Category
Oil and Gas
Project Description
Project Description: The project consists of replacing one existing Caterpillar (CAT) G3616LE A3 4,735 horsepower (HP) lean burn natural gas engine used in natural gas residue compression service with a Hyundai 5,000 HP electric motor, thereby eliminating all engine emissions from the existing engine. The project is located at CR Permian Processing, LLC’s Pecos Bend Gas Processing Plant in Pecos, Texas.
Phase
Implementation
Location
Pecos, TX
Area
Reeves
Grant Amount
$644,977.00
Reports
Application Number
2020-08-0001-NG
Project Category
New Technology: Oil and Gas
Project Description
ENSTOR Katy Storage and Transportation, L.P. is the owner and operator of a gas storage project in Fort Bend County, Texas. The project consists of replacing eight lean burn natural gas engine drivers used in natural gas storage compression service with eight remanufactured, more efficient and lower emission engines to reduce oxides of nitrogen (NOX), volatile organic compounds (VOC), and particulate matter (PM) emissions. They will also install a new three-way catalyst to reduce NOX, VOC, and PM emissions.
Phase
Operational
Location
Katy, TX
Area
Houston-Galveston-Brazoria
Grant Amount
$2,631,091.00
Application Number
2023-08-0011-NG
Project Category
Electricity Storage
Project Description
Project Description: The project consists of engineering, procuring, and implementing a source of non-dispatchable power via an up to 1 MW capacity (AC) photovoltaic (PV) solar array and a dispatchable 2 MW capacity battery energy storage solution (BESS) to increase capacity during moderate to high power requirement periods.
Phase
Pre-implementation
Location
Collin County, TX
Area
Dallas
Grant Amount
$2,273,452.00
Application Number
2020-08-0007-NG
Project Category
Electricity Storage
Project Description
Nelson Gardens Energy, LLC is the operator of the generation facilities at Nelson Gardens Landfill, located at 8963 Nelson Road, San Antonio, Texas. They will design and install a hybrid system of landfill gas-to-energy, solar energy, and flow battery storage on a closed landfill through integration of approximately 5.81 MW gross of DC solar generation together with 13 vanadium flow batteries of 78 kW each totaling approximately 1.014 MW at the existing generation site.
Phase
Implementation
Location
San Antonio, TX
Area
San Antonio
Grant Amount
$2,011,101.00
Application Number
2014-8-0001-NG
Project Category
Electricity Storage
Project Description
NRG Texas Power is the owner and operator of the Energy Storage Project (ESP) at Elbow Creek Wind Farm. NRG has an integrated lithium-ion (li-ion) battery system providing 2 megawatt (MW) of electric output of energy from wind and other renewable power. Wind energy captured by the Elbow Creek wind farm and other renewable resources is stored and delivered via the ERCOT system to the Energy Storage System and then in turn delivered back to the electric grid.
Phase
Operational
Location
Big Spring, TX
Area
Other
Grant Amount
$1,011,875
Application Number
2023-08-0003-NG
Project Category
Oil and Gas
Project Description
Project Description: Jaguar, a gas lift compression facility owned by Oxy USA Inc. (Oxy), was originally installed with 7 rental gas engine driven compressor skids. This project will replace the 7 gas engine driven reciprocating compressors with 6 1,500 horsepower electric motor driven reciprocating compressors. Power for the project will come from an upgraded PME with high voltage power lines running to the site where reclosures and step-down transformers will be installed. In addition, the project will install a new relief header from the compressor skid area that will tie-in to the existing flare system. Finally, the project will also supplement an existing gas fired line heater with a shell and tube heat exchanger. The heat exchanger will capture uncooled 3rd stage compressor discharge gas to heat the oil at Iguana to meet product vapor pressure specifications.
Phase
Completed
Location
Midland, TX
Area
Midland
Grant Amount
$1,260,183.91
Reports
Application Number
2017-08-0006-NG
Project Category
Electricity Storage
Project Description
The Pedernales Energy Storage Automation & Management with Solar (PESAMS) project integrates a 2 MW / 4 MWh lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) in Blanco County, Texas, near the newly installed Johnson City solar Photovoltaic array. Solar energy is stored in the batteries and then discharged/shifted to provide predictable and reliable energy to PEC members in rural areas of the Texas Hill Country during peak load demand times (3p.m.-7p.m.) when costs for using electricity is the highest.
Phase
Operational
Location
Johnson City, TX
Area
Austin
Grant Amount
$1,500,000.00
Application Number
2023-08-0009-NG
Project Category
Solar Storage
Project Description
Project Description: The project consists of PwrPac, LLC engineering, procuring, and implementing a photovoltaic (PV) solar array coupled with a battery energy storage system (BESS) with a total system power capacity of 1.05 MW and energy capacity of 1.45 MWh in Martin County, Texas. PwrPac, LLC will work with the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to interconnect the solar array and BESS. The pairing of battery storage with solar panels will allow PwrPac, LLC to support the electric grid in times of load shedding or peak loads, as determined by the electric utility.
Phase
Pre-implementation
Location
Martin County, TX
Area
Midland
Grant Amount
$590,000.00
Reports
Application Number
2014-8-0003-NG
Project Category
New Technology
Project Description
Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio installed a stainless-steel baghouse equipped with a combined Activated Carbon Injection (ACI) and Dry Sorbent Injection (DSI) system, providing service to three contiguous buildings in the Fire Technology area. The goal of the emission reduction project is to capture and control emissions of particulate matter, as well as hazardous and toxic air pollutants from the three buildings in the Fire Technology area. This was achieved by ducting emission from these buildings to a common centralized Pollution Abatement System that treats the emissions before releasing them to the atmosphere.
Phase
Operational
Location
San Antonio, TX
Area
San Antonio
Grant Amount
$500,000.00
Application Number
2019-08-0004-NG
Project Category
New Technology
Project Description
University of Texas at Arlington retrofitted two natural gas boilers that produce steam for the campus for heating and process loads. The retrofitted boilers have new burner management and combustion controls to increase efficiency and reduce emissions. The new controls have flue gas recirculation, stack oxygen metering, and trim and staged combustion to reduce the NOx and Nitrous Oxide emissions.
Phase
Operational
Location
Arlington, TX
Area
Dallas-Fort Worth
Grant Amount
$99,334.38