Colorado State University

Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) – North-central Methane Center (NCMC) the Purpose of This Project Is to Develop Consistent, Accurate, Granular, and Transparent Multiscale Methane Emission Measurements Focused on the Region’s Producing Basins That Will Inform State and Federal Emission Inventories for the North-central Region, Including a Focused Effort on Gathering and Transmission Pipelines, Distribution Damage, and Industrial Meters; to Collect, Validate, and Disseminate Point Source to Regional-scale Methane Emission Inventories That Are Scalable, Time-resolved, and Region-specific, Using Both Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches for the Specified Basins; to Provide Actionable Data to Operators and Regulators of Region-specific Failure Modes of Concern; to Develop Multi-scale Leak Detection and Quantification and Routine Monitoring Recommendations Suitable for a Range of Stakeholders Through Rigorous Comparisons and Validations of Different Technologies and Methods; to Develop Modeling Tools That Are Responsive to Evolving Regulatory Needs; and to Develop Workforce Participants With Project Partners and Education and Training Programs for Industry and Government Stakeholders.

Committed

$20.0 Million

Paid to

UEI LT9CXX8L19G1

601 S Howes ST, Fort Collins, CO, 80523

Department of Energy

Place

FORT COLLINS, CO, UNITED STATES

CO-02

Performance

Jan 15, 2025 → Dec 31, 2025

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Source

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Federal grant · cooperative agreement (b)

Department of Energy

Fossil Energy Research and Development to

Colorado State University

Committed

$20.0 Million

Paid to

Colorado State University

UEI LT9CXX8L19G1

601 S Howes ST, Fort Collins, CO, 80523

Department of Energy

Place

FORT COLLINS, CO, UNITED STATES

CO-02

Performance

Jan 15, 2025 → Dec 31, 2025

How to read these numbers

One award, start to finish: Everything here is this single award's whole record — signed, amended, paid — not a fiscal-year slice. The by-year charts elsewhere split an award across the years it was committed; this page keeps it whole.
Committed vs. ceiling: Committed is what the government has legally promised on this award so far. Contracts can also carry a ceiling — the maximum if every option is exercised. Unspent ceiling is headroom, not money owed.
Paid out: The cash actually disbursed against this award. The gap from committed is the disbursement pipeline: promised, not yet cashed.
The ledger: Each transaction is a signing event — an action that created or changed the award, dated the day it was signed — not a payment. Negative amounts are real: money de-committed at closeout or renegotiation.
The money bar: One bar, the award’s whole arithmetic: paid out, then committed, not yet paid, then .

Source

This award on USAspending.gov ↗