Month: January 2024

HOUSTON, January 17, 2023 /3BL/ – LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) signed two new Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) in the United States, which will bring the company’s total procured renewable electricity to 1,366 megawatts (MW), representing 89% of its goal to procure a minimum of 50% of its electricity from renewable sources.

“We are taking decisive steps to reduce our scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions and power purchase agreements are a critical lever towards meeting our targets,” said Chris Cain, LyondellBasell Senior Vice President for Net Zero Transition Strategy. “These two new agreements help us accelerate the development of clean energy and shift to use of low carbon energy at our sites.”

The company signed a long-term PPA for 125 MW of renewable electricity sourced from TotalEnergies’ Brazoria Solar project in Brazoria County, Texas. The 15-year agreement is expected to generate approximately 300,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) of solar power annually, equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of more than 28,000 American homes. The project is expected to commence operations at the end of 2025. This is the company’s second PPA with TotalEnergies.

“TotalEnergies is proud to support LyondellBasell on its ambitious climate goals,” said Vincent Stoquart, Senior Vice President, Renewables at TotalEnergies. “The signing of this new upside sharing PPA in the U.S. is consistent with our strategy of merchant exposure and will contribute to the objective of profitable growth for our Integrated Power business.”

LyondellBasell also signed a long-term PPA with Industrial Sun to supply 50 MW of renewable electricity from Industrial Sun’s Industrial Bravo solar project in Matagorda County, Texas, to the LyondellBasell Matagorda Complex. This facility produces high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic resins used to manufacture various consumer products. The project is expected to commence operations in the first half of 2026.

“We are excited to collaborate with LyondellBasell in support of their renewable energy goals,” said Wade Gungoll, CEO of Industrial Sun. “Our utility-scale net-metered industrial solar solution will simultaneously reduce the carbon footprint and operating expenses of LyondellBasell’s Matagorda Complex, which will in turn enhance the long-term prosperity of the facility and support more job creation in Matagorda County. Our unique projects are win-win-wins for the customer, the community, and the energy grid.”

LyondellBasell has a target to procure a minimum of 50% of electricity from renewable sources by 2030, based on 2020 procured levels. Approximately 15% of the company´s 2020 baseline scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions come from its electricity consumption. Renewable electricity is an important component of its pathway to net zero scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2050.

About LyondellBasell

We are LyondellBasell – a leader in the global chemical industry creating solutions for everyday sustainable living. Through advanced technology and focused investments, we are enabling a circular and low carbon economy. Across all we do, we aim to unlock value for our customers, investors and society. As one of the world’s largest producers of polymers and a leader in polyolefin technologies, we develop, manufacture and market high-quality and innovative products for applications ranging from sustainable transportation and food safety to clean water and quality healthcare. For more information, please visit or follow @LyondellBasell on LinkedIn.

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Some might not be aware of the considerable work unfolding so the energy transition can happen safely and seamlessly.

Important tools like carbon capture and storage (CCS), or adding hydrogen to the energy mix, can’t just happen with the collective snap of our fingers, unfortunately.

In reality, developing a low-carbon economy requires collaboration and a commitment to research and development—exactly like two significant initiatives just announced in British Columbia. Both projects involve energy transition leader Enbridge.

On the hydrogen front, we announced funding for a hydrogen blending study to examine how natural gas mixed with hydrogen can be transported safely and reliable using existing natural gas transportation infrastructure, such as our Westcoast natural gas pipeline system, the primary natural gas transmission system in BC.

The British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mine and Low Carbon Innovation is contributing, and FortisBC Energy, owner-operator of gas transmission and distribution assets in the province, is also undertaking a study of its own. Depending on results, the respective work could help inform development of a commercial hydrogen market in the province.

“We are working hard to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions and the carbon intensity of the energy we transport,” Cynthia Hansen, Enbridge’s Executive Vice President and President of Gas Transmission and Midstream, said today in a joint Enbridge and FortisBC news release.

“One way we’re doing this is by using our existing energy infrastructure to transport low-carbon forms of energy such as hydrogen. This important study will play a critical role in determining how existing energy infrastructure can be used to transport hydrogen and how we can continue to work to advance the energy transition.”

Hydrogen can be produced with low emissions (in the case of blue hydrogen) or no emissions (in the case of green hydrogen). When used to produce heat or electrical power, it emits only water vapor and air.

There are multiple practical benefits from leveraging existing pipeline networks, and blended hydrogen can be used for heating homes and businesses, as a transportation fuel substitute and for industrial purposes like metal refining, food processing and fertilizer manufacturing.

On the carbon capture and storage front, Geoscience BC announced on Tuesday that it’s bringing together a consortium of government, industry (including Enbridge) and other partners for the first phase of a Central Interior Geological CCS Assessment program.

The project will compile existing geoscience information on the extensive Nechako Basin, focusing south-southwest of Prince George and providing carbon sequestration insights along the Highway 16 corridor west to Houston, BC.

The area hosts several current greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters and has the potential for new technologies such as hydrogen production that require future carbon storage.

Enbridge is committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to achieve its goal of being net zero by 2050. And as the two initiatives above attest, we’re re also interested in working with those who have similar goals.

(TOP PHOTO: Enbridge natural gas pipelines along our Westcoast transmission system, which has served as the backbone of British Columbia’s natural gas industry since 1957).