Why CCS?
CCS project proposals
Current UK project proposals
Alstom Limited Consortium, North Yorkshire
Alstom Limited Consortium: oxyfuel new supercritical coal-fired power station on Drax site in North Yorkshire;
On 10 February 2011 it was announced that Alstom UK Ltd, Drax Power Limited and National Grid had applied for the EU NER300 funding competition(for CCS and renewable projects), for a new 436 MW gross oxy-fired CCS demo project based at a Drax site in Selby, North Yorkshire. National Grid will provide the transportation element of the chain with an experienced offshore partner. View the press release.
C.GEN, Yorkshire
C.GEN: new integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power station (pre-combustion with CCS on the coal-feed) in Killingholme, Yorkshire;
A pre-combustion capture facility for a possible 450 MW IGCC plant to be built on a site next to the existing Killinghome Power Station. For more information view the following website.
Peel Energy CCS Ltd, Scotland
Peel Energy CCS Ltd: post-combustion amine capture on new supercritical coal-fired power station in Ayrshire, Scotland;
In 2008 Peel Energy and DONG Energy established Ayrshire Power Limited (APL) as a joint venture to explore the possibility of building a 1600 MW power station at Hunterston in North Ayrshire. The proposed facility would co-fire coal and biomass, and would use CCS. DONG Energy now act as design partners. For more information view the following website.
In December 2010, APL announced the formation of a consortium with Doosan Power Systems, Fluor Limited and Petrofac. View the story.
In February 2011 it was announced that a bid was submitted for funding support through the EU NER300 funding competition for CCS and innovative renewables. View the Ayrshire Power Limited press release.
Don Valley Power Project, Yorkshire
Don Valley Power Project (formerly known as the Hatfield Project): new IGCC power station in Stainforth, Yorkshire;
In 2003 planning permission was granted for a major re-development of the Hatfield Colliery Site, which included permission to develop a new 900 MW natural gas CCGT and coal IGCC power plant. The proposed plant has been designed to facilitate a move to clean coal technology including carbon capture, based on the long term availability of coal feedstock from the Hatfield Colliery. For more information view the following website.
In December 2010, it was announced that Powerfuel went into administration. However, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, Powerfuel's plans are one of the most advanced in Europe and administrator for Powerfuel, KPMG, announced in February that it had received 10 "expressions of interest" for the project.
On February 10 2011, it was announced that bids had been submitted to the EU NER300 process to fund CCS projects for two projects in Hatfield. View the story. The first is a 900 MW IGCC plant in a consortium with National Grid, which was awarded 180 million euros funds from the EU's EEPR competition. The second project, a joint venture with Calix, was announced in November 2010 and is a 450MW gas fired Endex NGCC plant. View the story.
Progressive Energy Ltd, North East England
A consortium led by Progressive Energy Ltd; pre-combustion coal gasification project in Teesside, North East England;
Progressive Energy plans to build an 850 MW IGCC plant with pre-combustion capture on a brownfield site on Teesside. The project is known as Eston Grange. If built, around 85% of CO2 emissions will be captured and stored under the North Sea. The plant could also be used to produce decarbonised hydrogen. As part of the project a network for disposing of CO2 from other power plants and industrial processes in Teesside and the North East could be created.
ScottishPower, Scotland
ScottishPower Generation Limited: post-combustion amine capture retrofitted to an existing subcritical coal-fired power station at Longannet, Scotland;
ScottishPower’s Longannet Power Station is the second largest coal-fired power station in the UK and the third largest in Europe, generating 2400 MW of electricity (enough to power over 2 million homes in the UK).
In March 2010 it was selected by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) as one of the two final bids in the UK Government’s competition to build the first carbon capture and storage plant in the UK. The ScottishPower Consortium was the remaining entrant in the UK Government CCS Competition, and completed a detailed Front End Engineering Design (FEED) study for the project. The Coalition Government announced up to £1 billion in funding for the winner of the UKCCS competition in its Spending Review of October 2010.
The ScottishPower CCS Consortium is made up of ScottishPower, National Grid and Shell. ScottishPower is responsible for the management of the overall project as well as the construction and operation of the carbon capture plant (CCP) at Longannet Power Station (supported by Aker Clean Carbon as providers of the carbon capture technology).
National Grid is responsible for the onshore transportation of the CO2 along new and existing pipelines, utilising compression facilities that drive the CO2 to the offshore storage site.
Shell will transport the CO2 offshore and store it in an existing depleted gas reservoir under the Central North Sea that will have ceased production.
On 19 October 2011 the UK Government announced that it would not proceed with the project at Longannet but that other projects would be pursued with the £1 billion made available and also reaffirmed their commitment to CCS.
Findings gained through the Front-End Engineering and Design (FEED) studies for Longannet have been published and are freely available on the DECC website.
View the DECC press notice.
View the statement from the ScottishPower consortium.
View the CCSA response.
SSE Generation Limited, Scotland
SSE Generation Limited: post-combustion capture retrofitted to an existing CCGT power station at Peterhead, Scotland.
Peterhead was originally a joint project between Hydrogen Energy and Scottish and Southern Energy, and was planned to be a 475 MW natural gas-fired plant with CCS. The plant was estimated to cost $1.9 billion and would have captured 1.8 million tonnes of CO2 per year. The captured CO2 would have been used (and stored) in an Enhanced Oil Recovery project at BP’s Miller oil field in the North Sea, extending the life of the oil field for 15 to 20 years. Unfortunately the project was cancelled, but elements of it have been taken forward in other schemes. For more information view the website and the original press release.
The project has since evolved. On 10 February 2011 SSE announced that they submitted a proposal under to EU NER300 (See DECC website for further information) funding process to develop a CCS project for this gas-fired, post-combustion project at Peterhead. Shell and CO2DeepStore will provide offshore transport and storage elements as part of this proposal, with storage in an existing gas reservoir in the North Sea, operated by Shell, that will have ceased production. View the press release.
Other UK development projects
Aberthaw (RWE npower)
RWE npower and Shell have agreed contracts to build a 3MW post-combustion capture pilot plant at Aberthaw Power Station in Wales. The plant will be capable of capturing 50 tonnes of CO2 per day from a slipstream of the flue gas at Aberthaw. Subject to planning permission being granted, construction is expected to begin in January with commissioning expected in early 2011. View the press release.
Renfrew (Doosan Babcock)
In July 2009 Doosan Babcock opened the world’s largest ‘OxyCoal’ Clean Combustion Test Facility, designed to demonstrate the company’s ‘OxyCoal’ Clean Combustion system on a 40MWth burner. The project is a collaboration between Doosan Babcock, DECC and Scottish and Southern Energy, as well as Air Products, Drax, DONG, EDF, E.ON, ScottishPower, Vattenfall and UK Coal. View the press release.
Didcot (RWE npower)
RWE npower is currently running CO2 capture test facilities at Didcot Power Station. The facilities were commissioned in 2008 and test both post-combustion and oxyfuel capture methods. View the press release.
