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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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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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Industry News
Avista Asks 10 Percent Electric Rate Hike
LCG, Dec. 4, 2001--Avista Corp. said yesterday it has asked Washington state regulators to approve a 10 percent increase in its electric rates which would go into effect next March 15.Even with the increase, Avista's residential rates would be 5.872 cents per kilowatt-hour, which the utility claims are among the lowest in the region and well below the national average of 6.8 cents.Avista said the 10 percent hike would be a uniform increase for all customer classes and would be for the generation portion of the monthly electric bill only.Scott Morris, president of Avista utilities, said his company "must improve its current financial situation. We have worked diligently to demonstrate to regulators the prudence of our wholesale power costs and have made dramatic reductions in costs in order to shore up the financial stability of the company. It is only after exhaustive efforts that we request further rate relief."Avista first found itself in uncertain financial waters in the spring of last year. On May 4, 2000, the company sold its 175 megawatt interest in the Centralia, Wash., coal-fired power plant without making arrangements for replacement power. At the same time, the California energy crisis was at its worst and sent wholesale power prices soaring throughout the West.Avista has been caught in the middle ever since. In October of this year, the company's credit ratings were slashed to below investment grade. The company has since reduced both capital expenditures and operating expenses in an effort to improve cash flows.
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