Calpine | Baytown CCS Project
USA
Greenfield
Overview
Status
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Greenfield
Region
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North America
Geography
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USA
State
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Texas
Equity Owner
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Calpine
Proponent
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Calpine Texas CCUS Holdings, LLC
Output
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Carbon capture
Type of electricty
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Capacity
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2 million tons per annum of CO2
Financing
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Technology
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Technical Advisors
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Technip Energies (FEED); Shell Catalysts & Technologies (FEED); Zachry Group (FEED)
Advisors
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Project Contact
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Caleb Stephenson, EVP of Commercial Operations, Calpine
Lawyers
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Project Cost
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Offtaker
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Commercial Operations Date
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Decommission Date
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FID
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Description
A carbon capture project at The Baytown Energy Center, in Baytown, Texas.
The project is being designed to capture 95% or more of CO2 emissions from turbines and auxiliary boilers at this facility.
The CO2 will be transported using new and existing pipelines and sequestered in storage sites on the Gulf Coast.
Located less than 10 miles from Calpine’s Deer Park Energy Center, the facility is near CO2 storage resources along the Texas Gulf Coast.
The project uses Shell’s CANSOLV* CO2 Capture System technology.
The Baytown Energy Center is a natural gas-fired power plant that incorporates combined-cycle and cogeneration technologies. The plant consists of three combustion turbines with three heat-recovery steam generators.
In December 2023, the project was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations alongside another Calpine project, the Sutter Decarbonization Project, for a combined $540m of funding.