📢 Major carbon capture and storage (CCS) news from Google: Today, the company announced a first-of-its-kind corporate agreement to purchase most of the electricity generated by a new 400-MW natural gas plant equipped with CCS technology. The Broadwing Energy Center in Illinois will capture and permanently store about 90% of its CO2 emissions more than a mile underground. CEBA applauds Google's commitment to helping bring promising new CCS solutions to the market, ensuring clean firm electricity is available to support growing power demand. Read more from Michael Terrell, Head of Advanced Energy at Google and Chair of CEBA's Board of Directors ⤵️ https://lnkd.in/ea33b-zC
Today we announced our first agreement to support a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project with Low Carbon Infra (LCI). The Broadwing plant, located in Decatur, Illinois, will capture and permanently store approximately 90% of its CO2 emissions while providing clean around the clock power to the regional grid that serves our data centers. Read the announcement in our blog: https://lnkd.in/gQ3an8Wn We’ve been chasing CCS opportunities for quite some time. When we published our strategy to build a portfolio of solutions as part of our 24/7 carbon-free energy aspiration, we identified CCS as a critical technology, alongside advanced nuclear, enhanced geothermal, long duration storage, flexible demand and other techs. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gu_wJ85x Over the past year especially, we’ve made progress across a number of these technologies, and now we’re adding CCS to the mix given its critical role in meeting the world’s growing electricity needs with clean firm power. Through this first CCS project with Broadwing, and future projects in the U.S. we’ll develop through our partnership with LCI, we aim to accelerate deployment of this technology and help decarbonize natural gas power generation. This milestone wouldn’t have been possible without the leadership of Lucia Tian, Amanda Peterson Corio and Will Conkling and the huge cross-functional Google team including Michelle Chang, Donna Calderon, Adam Forni, John Stevens, Ph.D., Satish Subramanian Ravi, Swami Sethuraman, Johnson Kuo, CPA, Patrick Taylor, Marc Pujol, Yingxia Yang, Sana Ouji, Kelly Hanson-Schaefer, Mark Caine, Mara Harris, Abby Bauer and Miki Stamenkovic. And we’re excited to collaborate with Jonathan Wiens, Mark Crosby, Jesse Krynak, Mark Woodruff, William Carver and the teams at Low Carbon Infra and I Squared Capital; Gregory Webb, Colin Graves and the team at ADM; and Bill Newsom, Mark Bissonnette, Kosuke Kasada, Joseph Sticca and the team at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to get this first-of-its-kind plant up and running.
