The Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations within the Department of Energy (DOE) selected Baytown Energy Center, located in Baytown, Texas, and entered into a cost-sharing agreement to build a commercial-scale carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project that will capture and store approximately two million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions from turbines and auxiliary boilers each year.
Located less than 10 miles from Calpine’s Deer Park Energy Center, this facility is near significant CO2 sequestration resources along the Texas Gulf Coast. As a combined heat and power generation facility, carbon capture at the Baytown facility will enable Baytown to provide low-carbon industrial heat to co-located facilities and low-carbon power to the Texas grid.
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- About 450 megawatts of low-carbon power and steam of the total 810 megawatts of baseload electric power of the Baytown facility.
- Enough to power more than 296,000 homes.
- Up to 2 million metric tons per year in CO2 offsets.
- Equivalent to removing approximately 450,000 gasoline-powered cars from the road annually.
- FEED (Front-End Engineering Design) study, permitting and development underway.
- Close to 150 gigatons (330 trillion pounds) of CO2 carbon sequestration capacity in the Gulf Coast of Texas that can sequester the carbon dioxide safely and securely, permanently preventing it from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.
- Supplies the adjacent Covestro complex with electricity and steam, as well as added power for the Texas grid.
- Potential employment benefits include 1.5 million construction hours (about 250 full-time jobs for 3 years) in addition to full-time, high-paying, clean-energy power plant jobs.