Marguerite Lake CAES Carbon Capture and Hydrogen Hub

Babcock & Wilcox (B&W) and Cache Power Corp. have won a grant from Alberta Innovates to launch an engineering-study for a 640 MW compressed-air energy-storage (CAES) and hydrogen-hub facility near La Corey, Alberta, Canada, split into two 320 MW phases, where excess grid renewables will be stored in underground salt caverns, and then expanded to generate electricity by reheating the compressed air with natural gas or hydrogen. B&W’s proprietary BrightLoop™ technology will be used to produce up to ~60 tonnes/day of hydrogen while generating an almost pure CO₂ stream for capture and storage — enabling net-zero operation of the CAES facility.