Barbara Huettenhain McBride is a Sr. Director of Strategic Origination and Development at Calpine Corporation and has over 35 years of experience as a development and environmental professional and is responsible for permitting over 6,000 megawatts of natural gas-fired generation in the western United States. She has been working on carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) projects for nearly two decades and is leading development of a commercial scale CCUS at a natural gas-fired generation facility located in northern California and was instrumental in the development of a pilot-scale CCUS project at a combined heat and power facility testing advanced carbon capture solvents in partnership with DOE in Pittsburg, California. Ms. McBride has an established record of working with federal, state and local regulators to design projects that achieve the project objectives, while adhering to the strong environmental and labor standards, often in the face of significant opposition. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Carbon Capture Coalition and the California Council for Environment and Economic Balance and regularly participates in legislative and regulatory advocacy for the role that CCUS projects can play in achieving federal and state decarbonization objectives.
