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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
B&W and FirstEnergy Announce Plans to Evaluate Deployment of Small Modular Reactors
LCG, July 26, 2012--The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) and FirstEnergy Corp. announced yesterday that FirstEnergy and a B&W subsidiary, Generation mPower LLC (GmP), executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) regarding studies to develop small modular reactors in FirstEnergy's service territory, which includes regions in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic.
The announcement states that FirstEnergy and GmP plan to work together to perform an independent financial review of mPower economics, evaluate alternative sites for construction of the B&W mPower plants, complete a preliminary pre-licensing analysis, and assess the need and schedule for deployment of B&W mPower plants by FirstEnergy.
The B&W mPower small modular reactor (SMR) is an advanced nuclear reactor with a design that uses a fully underground containment structure and provides an electric generating capacity of 180 MWe, in contrast to reactors in the approval process now with capacities of 1,000 MWe or more.
The SMR offers a lower project cost due to its smaller size and because roughly 70 percent of the reactor and its systems are contained within the unit and built in the factory. Moreover, the smaller size provide the potential to deploy the SMRs at aging coal-fired power plant sites, where coal-fired units are approaching retirement, and remaining utility infrastructure may be of value in developing the SMR.
The President of FirstEnergy Generation and Chief Nuclear Officer stated, "Our agreement today is an outgrowth of the company's involvement with B&W's consortium to promote the development of small modular reactors. Completing these studies will help us determine how B&W small modular reactors may be part of our long term generation planning."
The President and Chief Executive Officer of GmP said, "This cooperative effort with FirstEnergy demonstrates growing interest in our B&W mPower SMR as a clean, efficient and affordable power generation option. B&W has a long history of working in Ohio, and our employees in the state have an important role in the development of safer, more secure nuclear technology. We appreciate FirstEnergy's industry leadership, and look forward to working closely with them to complete these studies."
Ohio's two senators also applauded the MOU and the commitment to advanced, clean energy development and the related jobs the project could bring to Ohio.
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