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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
Xcel and SunPower Announce 17-MW Solar PV Project in Colorado
LCG, April 8, 2009--Xcel Energy yesterday announced it has selected SunPower Corp. to construct a 17-MW photovoltaic (PV) solar project in south-central Colorado. Xcel will purchase the electricity generated from the project under a long-term, power purchase agreement (PPA) with SunPower.
The project is scheduled to commence operations by the end of 2010, given approval from the Colorado Public Utility Commission and receipt of project financing.
The project will be built in Alamosa, Colorado and will incorporate SunPower's Tracker technology, which provides for the PV panels to follow the sun throughout the day and increase the solar energy converted to power.
Xcel must use renewable energy sources to meet 20 percent of its retail electricity sales by 2020 to meet the State of Colorado's renewable portfolio standard (RPS) requirements. Furthermore, for investor-owned utilities like Xcel, at least four percent of the standard must be generated by solar-electric technologies. Xcel currently purchases solar power from an 8.2-MW facility located near the Alamosa site that was developed by SunEdison.
SunPower recently began construction on a similar, 25-MW solar PV project at Florida Power & Light Company's (FPL) DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy Center in Florida. In addition FPL is pursuing a 10-MW, solar PV project that uses the Sunpower panels and SunPower Tracker technology at the Kennedy Space Center.
Last month, Xcel's neighbor, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association (Tri-State), announced that it executed an agreement with First Solar, Inc. to develop a 30-MW solar PV facility in northeastern New Mexico. The Cimarron I Solar Project will be built on a 250-acre site in Colfax County. Construction is scheduled to begin by April 2010, with the initial phase delivering power by August and full operations achieved by year-end.
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