GRAND FORKS, N.D. – North Dakota Senator John Hoeven says the agreement between the University of North Dakota’s Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) and the U.S. Department of Energy for supporting the Center’s research projects, including the Crack the Code 2.0 initiative, has been renewed.
The new agreement will bring $25 million to the Center over a period of five years.
““This $25 million, five-year agreement is a welcome support for the important work the EERC is doing to ensure our state remains a global energy powerhouse for years to come. I appreciate Secretary Wright and Under Secretary Haustveit for working with us to not only get a new agreement in place, but to provide short-term extensions of the prior agreement while these negotiations were ongoing,” said Hoeven. “With phase one of Crack the Code 2.0 fully funded following this month’s $36 million award, this cooperative agreement provides a necessary supplement to support EERC, including as the organization looks ahead to the future phases of our initiative to both double oil recovery in the Bakken and double the life of our coal-fired power plants.”
The agreement between the Department and EERC has been in place since 1983.
