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EPA and Texas Railroad Commission Sign Memorandum of Agreement for Permitting Geologic Storage of Carbon Dioxide

LCG, April 29, 2025--Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Texas Railroad Commission (RRC) signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) today outlining the state’s plans to administer programs related to carbon storage wells, known as Class VI wells. The MOA signing is a required step in the RRC’s application to be granted authority to permit Class VI wells in the state of Texas. EPA is currently preparing a proposed approval of RRC’s primacy application.

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Calpine and ExxonMobil Sign CO2 Transportation and Storage Agreement for CCS Project in Texas

LCG, April 24, 2025--Exxon Mobil Corporation (ExxonMobil) announced yesterday an agreement with Calpine Corporation (Calpine) to transport and permanently store up to 2 million metric tons per annum (MTA) of CO2 from Calpine’s Baytown Energy Center, a natural gas-fired facility located near Houston, Texas. This is part of Calpine’s Baytown Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project that is designed to add CCS for the facility’s CO2 emissions. The Calpine facility could then provide a 24/7 supply of low-carbon electricity to the Texas grid plus steam to nearby industrial facilities.

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Columbia Energy Sells the Last of its Generation

LCG, Oct. 11, 2000--Columbia Energy Group said this morning that it has agreed to sell the remaining generation assets of its Columbia Electric subsidiary to a joint venture between independent Delta Power Co. and John Hancock Life insurance Co.

Terms of the sale were not disclosed.

Columbia will sell its 50 percent interest in the Gregory Power Project, a 550 megawatt combined-cycle cogeneration facility near Corpus Christi, Texas, that provides both steam and electricity to an Alco alumina plant and sells excess electricity into the regional wholesale power market through a marketing agreement with Dynegy Inc.

The deal also includes Columbia's 50 percent interest in a 117 megawatt combined-cycle cogeneration plant near Pedricktown, N.J., that provides steam and electricity to PolyOne Corp. and excess power into the PJM market.

Also part of the sale is the company's 50 percent interest in a 47 megawatt unit that provides electricity to the City of Vineland (N.J.) Electric Utility and steam to the Progresso unit of Diageo Plc. A 10 percent interest in an 85 megawatt cogenerator in Rumford, Maine, is also part of the agreement.

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