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Google has announced its first corporate agreement to support a natural gas power plant equipped with carbon capture and storage technology, marking a significant expansion of the company’ s clean energy strategy.
The Broadwing Energy facility, located in Decatur, Illinois, is set to have more than 400 megawatts of generating capacity and will be able to capture approximately 90 % of its carbon dioxide emissions for permanent underground storage.
The project is also Google’ s first collaboration with Low Carbon Infrastructure, a portfolio company of infrastructure investor I Squared Capital, to develop CCS facilities across the US.
“ Today, Google is taking a major leap forward to unlock the next generation of advanced clean energy technology, through a new agreement to support a first-of-its-kind gas power plant with carbon capture and storage,” says Kate Brandt, Google’ s Chief Sustainability Officer.
Industrial site uses existing infrastructure The power plant will be constructed at an industrial facility operated by Archer Daniels Midland, which has nearly a decade of experience storing CO₂ from ethanol production.
The carbon dioxide that is captured at the site will then be permanently stored in ADM’ s adjacent EPA-
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