Grant Cummings
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Biography
Grant Cummings is a Senior Policy Associate at ClearPath. Prior to joining ClearPath, Grant was a Legislative Aide for U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-AK), where he worked on energy, infrastructure and emissions reduction legislation. His background includes broad exposure to the energy industry, starting in the fields of West Texas, that later translated into positions in Alaska, and most recently, Washington, DC. His federal experience includes stints with the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, and with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management as a Plan Section Engineer where he worked to facilitate the development of U.S. Outer Continental Shelf energy and mineral resources in an environmentally and economically responsible way.
Grant has a passion for developing innovative solutions to transform the discussion around energy policy, specifically, efficient decarbonization and its related infrastructure.
Education
B.S. in Petroleum Engineering from University of Alaska Fairbanks; MBA from the University of Alaska Fairbanks
Area of Expertise
Export Policies, Trade, Reservoir Engineering, Carbon Capture Utilization, and Storage (CCUS)
Featured Content from Grant
If the U.S. wants to reach its emissions reduction goals, a diverse mix of energy solutions is needed – including hydrogen and carbon capture. However, we’ll need a huge buildout of pipeline infrastructure to get that hydrogen and captured carbon where it needs to go.
Clarifying ownership of federal pore space brings the U.S. one step closer to having a complete CCUS regulatory framework, which will provide the private sector with much-needed regulatory certainty for these projects to be successful.
Carbon capture remains one of the most promising clean energy technologies. It’s becoming widely recognized across party lines for its potential to reduce the environmental footprint of heavy industrial processes and directly remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report reaffirmed the important role carbon capture and removal technologies must play in reducing global carbon emissions.
This white paper provides recommendations for implementing the Carbon Dioxide Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (CIFIA) program within the Department of Energy (DOE). The buildout of infrastructure is needed to transport CO2 from where it is captured to where it can be utilized or securely sequestered underground.
Carbon Clean, a technology developer headquartered in London with offices in the U.S., is looking to capture carbon emissions from small- to medium-sized industrial emitters such as steel, cement and chemical, and significantly reduce the size and cost of capture technology.