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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
Calpine Receives Project Financing to Complete Metcalf Energy Center
LCG, February 3, 2005--Calpine Corporation announced yesterday that it had received a $100 million, non-recourse credit facility from ING Capital LLC and Bayerische Landesbank's New York operations to complete the Metcalf Energy Center, located in San Jose, California. Commercial operations of the 600-MW, combined-cycle power plant are planned to commence in June 2005.Calpine stated that it will sell the entire output from the gas-fired plant to its wholly ownedsubsidiary, Calpine Energy Services, L.P., who in turn will sell power to large wholesale customers and into the daily energy market. The project finance facility will mature in July 2008.
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