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Calpine and ExxonMobil Sign CO2 Transportation and Storage Agreement for CCS Project in Texas

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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Doral Renewables Selects NovaSource as Partner to Deploy the 1.6-GWdc Mammoth Solar Project in Indiana

LCG, April 21, 2025--NovaSource Power Services ("NovaSource") recently announced that it has partnered with Doral Renewables and has been selected as the Operations and Maintenance ("O&M") and Generator Operator ("GO") for the Mammoth Solar Project, one of the largest agrivoltaics facilities in the United States.

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FP&L Asks for 8.7 Percent Residential Rate Hike

LCG, Sept. 22, 2000In an effort to compensate for the soaring price of oil and an increase in natural gas prices, Florida Power & Light Co. has asked regulators for permission to increase the prices it charges customers for electricity.

FP&L said it had file an application yesterday with the Florida Public Service Commission for a fuel cost adjustment rate increase that would boost residential rates by 8.7 percent for two years. The company said it spread the cost increase over two years to lessen the immediate impact on ratepayers, but it did not promise not to come back next year and ask for another increase if its fuel costs keep on rising.

Each year, typically in September or October, Florida utilities adjust the fuel, environmental,purchased power and conservation components of the customer bill to true-up actual expenses for the past year and project expenses for the coming year. The adjustments, once reviewed and approved by the PSC, will appear on customer bills during the following calendar year. FP&L is asking that the increased costs be recovered over two years.

"Our plan includes spreading $518 million in unrecovered fuel expenses over a two-year period,rather than the typical one-year timeframe. This way, we are able to ease some of the impact of these extraordinary increases in fuel costs on our customers," said Paul Evanson, the utility's president.

The 8.7 percent increase will cost the typical FP&L residential customers almost six and a half bucks a month, the company said. And it figures that's all it can get away with. In its announcement, the utility said "As a further effort to lessen the impact of clause adjustments on customer bills, FPL has asked the PSC to spread the cost of a $222.5 million buyout of purchased power contracts with two Palm Beach county power plants over five years and delay the start of recovery from customers until2002."

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