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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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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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Industry News
California Capsule: Water Agency Can Collect from Ratepayers
LCG, March 8, 2001The California Public Utilities Commission yesterday voted to allow the state Department of Water Resources to collect from electricity consumers the money it spend buying wholesale power in their behalf.The PUC granted the water agency authority to demand that retail electric rates be set at levels "sufficient to enable DWR to recover its revenue requirements on a timely basis." If the state's investor-owned utilities had had that authority, there wouldn't be a California power crisis.The PUC action was necessary to reassure lenders from whom the state plans to borrow $10 billion or more to finance long-term power contracts.The action is certain to result in an across-the-board rate increase beyond those currently contemplated. The PUC's Office of Ratepayer Advocates acknowledged that electric bills would be going up. Chris Danforth, a spokesman for that watchdog agency, said "It's implicit that there's probably going to have to be a rate increase, but how it's all going to be handled is kind of up in the air."So far, money spent by the water agency for power has been coming out of the taxpayers' pockets at the rate of $50 million a day.And that's not all that's happening in the Golden State.- Those long-term contracts announced by California Gov. Gray Davis, under which the state will pay an average of $69 per megawatt-hour for wholesale electricity, may not be such a good deal with new power plants being authorized by the California Energy Commission. Robert Grow, an energy analyst who works for the commission observed "With new generation, the shortages will stop, and prices may return to something like normal, around $30 per megawatt-hour, and if you're paying $70 to $80 per megawatt hour, you're going to be paying way too much."
- Sunlaw Energy Corp., the applicant proposing to build the 550 megawatt Nueva Azalea Power Plant Project in the city of South Gate, requested yesterday that the California Energy Commission suspend its licensing process for the generating facility. South Gate voters on Tuesday rejected the company's plans in a "no in my back yard" advisory vote, and Sunlaw had said it wouldn't build where it wasn't wanted.
- By a 4-0 vote yesterday, the Energy Commission approved a 51 megawatt peaking plant that El Paso Merchant Energy Co. wants to build at the San Francisco International Airport. The facility, called United Golden Gate Power Project, was the sole remaining small peaking plants of seven proposed last fall. The others were withdraw in the face of neighborhood objections. None of the six cancelled plants would have been built in a residential area.
- In a move to conserve energy, Gov. Davis yesterday released an implementation plan designed to put teeth into his February order that directed retail businesses to significantly reduce outdoor lighting after March 15. The implementation plan seems to be a backing off from the governor's February threat that retailers who didn't dim the lights could be fined $1,000 per day. It is not clear what motivator will replace the fines.
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