Deer Park

Calpine is finalizing a FEED study on a modular, commercial-scale, 5 million tonnes net CO₂ per year, second-generation CCS that captures 95% of total CO₂ emissions from an energy facility at our Deer Park carbon capture location.

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Delta

ION Clean Energy is finalizing a FEED Study for a CCS system to be retrofitted onto Calpine’s Delta Energy Center (DEC), an existing 857-MW NGCC power station located in Pittsburg, California, in close proximity to a number of CO₂ point sources. This design effort will utilize ION’s ICE-21 solvent and will take full advantage of the solvent’s benefits, which include a smaller physical plant, reduced energy requirements, less solvent degradation, lower emissions, and lower capital costs relative to systems built with commercial benchmark solvents. The team will work to decarbonize DEC by capturing 95% of the CO2 emissions for geologic sequestration in the nearby Sacramento Basin.

Hermiston CarbonSAFE

The University of Wyoming plans to accelerate the scale-up and deployment of commercial CO₂ sequestration in basaltic rocks at a sequestration complex near Calpine’s Hermiston Power Project in Hermiston, Oregon. Basalt formations represent an attractive alternative for CO₂ sequestration due to their potential for rapid mineralization, widespread geographic distribution, and potentially large sequestration capacity. The abundance of basalts in the Pacific Northwest makes them a critical reservoir type for deploying CO₂ sequestration in the region.

Pastoria 

Calpine will conduct a front-end engineering design (FEED) study for a carbon capture system at the Pastoria Energy Facility; the plant includes natural gas combined-cycle facilities located near Bakersfield, California. 

Sutter CarbonSAFE

The Gas Technology Institute is studying the feasibility of using the central Sacramento Basin in Northern California as a CO₂ sequestration complex. The project team plans to drill a stratigraphic test well to collect geologic characterization data to better understand the sequestration reservoirs and sealing formations within the sequestration complex.