Capturing carbon: East Bay energy project debuts new weapon in war on climate change

by Tony Hicks, Bay City News July 19, 2023July 18, 2023

Workers appear on the absorption tower at Calpine's Los Medanos Energy Center in Pittsburg during a carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration on July 14, 2023. CCS is an emerging technology to recover carbon dioxide emitted from fossil fuels and move it to locations where it can be kept from entering the atmosphere in order to mitigate global warming. (Ray Saint Germain/Bay City News)

LESS THAN TWO weeks after Earth saw the highest average daily temperatures in recorded history, energy officials gathered in eastern Contra Costa County to kickstart a major weapon in the fight against climate change.

Electricity producer Calpine cut the ribbon this past Friday on its new pilot project at the Los Medanos Energy Center in Pittsburg that aims to capture 95 percent of the carbon produced by its electrical generation.

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