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Members of the Gulf Coast Carbon Collaborative (GC3) representing 21 companies from the region’s power, energy, engineering and manufacturing sectors met on April 1, 2021 for the group’s first quarterly meeting of the year. Quarterly GC3 meetings are designed to give member companies and partners a holistic view of project progress being made in the various GC3 working groups, and to facilitate discussion on important cross-sectional themes like goal setting, corporate carbon strategy, policy, technology, metrics, and carbon accounting.

Entergy Corporation and Mitsubishi Power will work together to develop hydrogen-capable gas turbine combined cycle facilities; develop green hydrogen production, storage and transportation facilities; create nuclear-supplied electrolysis facilities with energy storage; and develop utility scale battery storage systems.

Gulf Coast Carbon Collaborative founding member Entergy Corporation announced today it is accelerating its climate action goals with a commitment to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Also today, Entergy and Mitsubishi Power, a world leader in power generation and energy storage, signed a joint development agreement in which they will collaborate to bring decarbonization projects to Entergy’s utility businesses in Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana, including the separate jurisdiction of New Orleans.

Gulf Coast Carbon Collaborative (GC3) members launched a new working group in late June 2020 focused on low-emission generation technologies. This working group will explore collaborative project opportunities around the applicability and deployment of emerging technologies in the Gulf Coast region including nuclear generation, hydrogen and advanced solar technology. This working group joins already established working groups on carbon capture, use and storage; electrification; and land-based sequestration.

GC3 member companies have formed working groups around three decarbonization strategies: carbon capture, use and storage; electrification; and land-based sequestration. There's strong interest from the group to add a fourth working group to the lineup focused on emerging low-emission technologies, including nuclear generation, hydrogen and advanced solar technology.

To launch the low-emission technology working group, the GC3 held a virtual event on June 29, 2020 to introduce these three technologies and explore interest in the group in deploying these types of projects in the Gulf Coast region. Company representatives from Shell, Heliogen and the Nuclear Energy Institute will provided presentations, which were followed by breakout group discussions on these three different approaches.

The first 2020 Gulf Coast Carbon Collaborative Quarterly Meeting was held virtually on April 8, 2020 with 52 attendees. Following introductory table-setting presentations from BP, The Ohio State University, ExxonMobil, HARC, Entergy, C2ES and the Center for Houston's Future, breakouts were held on three decarbonization strategies: carbon capture, use and storage (split between Texas and Louisiana); electrification; and land-based sequestration. Below are some key outcomes from those breakouts.

Members of the Gulf Coast Carbon Collaborative and invited guests are meeting on April 8, 2020 in Houston, Texas for the group’s first quarterly working meeting.

The day will include presentations, facilitated discussion and working group breakout sessions focusing on project development around key content areas defined at the December launch meeting in New Orleans. These include land-based sequestration, CCUS, electrification, strategy/technology information sharing, and barriers and enablers related to policy and regulation, education and communications.

NEW ORLEANS, December 4, 2019 Nearly five dozen Gulf Coast industry representatives from the automotive, power, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, chemical, refining, and transportation sectors came together this week to share and scale decarbonization strategies at the inaugural meeting of the Gulf Coast Carbon Collaborative. The Collaborative is the first-of-its-kind industry initiative focused on cross-sector solutions to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.