RECS is the premier carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) education and training experience and career network for graduate students and early career professionals in the U.S. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, RECS is an annual intensive program that combines classroom instruction with group exercises, site visits, communications training, and hands-on field activities covering science, technology, policy, and business topics associated with CCUS deployment.
RECS 2024
July 21—30, 2024
The 20th annual RECS program (RECS 2024)—sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Fossil Energy & Carbon Management (FECM)L)—will be held on July 21-30, 2024 in Colorado and Wyoming for 34 participants who are young leaders in CCUS and the energy transition. RECS 2024 includes engaging, interactive content on a range of CCUS topics and incorporates CCUS site tours, live lectures, a geology field excursion, discussion sessions, and group exercises. Many of the nation’s pioneering CCUS experts from industry, national labs, and academia serve on the RECS faculty and will share about CCUS research, demonstrations, and early commercial projects that are foundational for this emerging industry. The RECS 2024 emphasis will be on CCUS commercial deployment—technical requirements for permitting, lessons learned from project experience, community benefits plans and community engagement, where the market is today, key players, and how policy and business drivers shape investment and deployment. RECS alumni will also share about their CCUS work experience with opportunities to network with the broader RECS community (>700 alumni).
Building on over two decades of DOE and industry investment, the CCUS industry is poised to play a major role in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and helping to bring about the clean energy transition. The RECS community is leading and catalyzing many of these efforts and making an impact not only in the United States but around the world as well.