Baytown

Calpine’s Baytown Carbon Capture Project is a planned large-scale CCS development at Calpine’s Baytown Energy Center in Texas that would retrofit post-combustion capture technology onto existing natural gas combined-cycle units to deliver low-carbon electricity and steam. The project is designed to provide approximately 450 megawatts of low-carbon power and steam out of the facility’s 810 megawatts of baseload capacity. Captured CO₂ would be compressed to pipeline specifications and transported to permanent geological storage through Gulf Coast carbon transport and sequestration networks. The project is intended to continue supplying electricity and steam to the adjacent Covestro industrial complex while supporting the Texas grid, and construction was expected to generate approximately 1.5 million labor hours, or about 250 full-time construction jobs over three years, in addition to long-term operational roles. Calpine previously executed a DOE cost-sharing agreement to advance the project, but the federal funding was later withdrawn, and the project remains in a planned development stage without DOE financial support.