Overview
- Google agreed to buy most of the 400 MW Broadwing plant’s output to help supply its Midwest data centers via the regional grid.
- The gas-fired project aims to capture about 90% of its CO2 and inject it into Archer Daniels Midland’s adjacent EPA-approved Class VI wells more than a mile underground.
- Developers expect a final investment decision in the first half of 2026, with commercial operations targeted in the early 2030s.
- Google says the project will use newly released CCS-specific Energy Attribute Certificates to improve emissions accounting and transparency.
- The deal renews scrutiny of CCS given mixed performance and cost records and because upstream methane leaks from the gas supply chain are not addressed by carbon capture.