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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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Commercial Operations Begin for Buffalo Gap 3 Wind Farm in Texas

LCG, September 25, 2008--AES Corporation yesterday announced commercial operations have commenced at the 170 MW Buffalo Gap 3 wind farm expansion near Abilene, Texas. AES signed a seven-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with Direct Energy for all of the power produced by Buffalo Gap 3. The Buffalo Gap 3 expansion was announced in September of last year.

The Buffalo Gap 3 expansion includes 74 Siemens wind turbine generators. With the Buffalo Gap 3 expansion, the total electric generating capacity of the wind farm is 524 MW. All of the power generated from the wind farm is purchased under similar PPA's by Direct Energy.

The second phase of the Buffalo Gap project achieved commercial operation in August 2007 and added 233 MW of generating capacity from the installation of 155 wind turbine generators from GE.
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