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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
DOE and B&W Sign Agreement to Develop mPower Small Modular Reactor
LCG, April 16, 2013--The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W) announced yesterday that its subsidiary, Babcock & Wilcox mPower, Inc. (B&W mPower), and the Department of Energy (DOE) have signed a Cooperative Agreement for funding from the DOE's Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Licensing Technical Support Program to support the development and licensing of B&W's mPower technology.
B&W's mPower technology is based upon a 180-MW, integral pressurized water reactor design that uses a fully underground containment structure. With the Cooperative Agreement, approximately $79 million, allocated from the first year of the Licensing Technical Support Program, will now be available to the B&W mPower program.
A DOE representative stated, "The Department is pleased to complete this important step in our SMR Licensing Technical Support Program. Our work with B&W mPower will help advance the commercialization of safe and efficient SMRs in the United States. U.S.-built SMRs have the potential to cost-effectively support our nation's energy and climate goals while boosting U.S. manufacturing capabilities and job growth."
The signing of the Cooperative Agreement formalizes B&W's cost-share agreement with DOE, following the selection last November of the mPower America team - comprised of B&W, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and Generation mPower - as the winner of DOE's competitively bid funding opportunity, in support of commercial demonstration of the B&W mPower SMR by 2022. B&W mPower and Bechtel (who together formed Generation mPower LLC) will provide licensing and engineering support for the mPower America Project.
The new agreement shows continued progress to develop the mPower SMR technology. In February, B&W announced that B&W mPower executed a development agreement with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to prepare and support the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) review of a Construction Permit Application for a B&W mPower SMR at TVA's Clinch River Site in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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