The British Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has granted £5m (€5.6m) to C-Capture and to the Drax Group for a 2-year study research programme on how C-Capture’s technology could be scaled up at Drax's power plant in North Yorkshire (United Kingdom). The power plant could capture and store up to 16 MtCO2/year, becoming the first negative emissions power plant in the world in the 2020s.
The Drax power complex is already capturing 1 tCO2/d from its bioenergy and carbon capture and storage (BECCS) launched in November 2018. The pilot project was announced in May 2018 and is worth over £400,000 (US$514,000). In May 2019, Drax Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Equinor and National Grid Ventures to cooperate on the BECCS pilot project at the Drax power plant that would be scaled up in the 2020s.
In Cheshire, Tata Chemical also announced plans to develop the first industrial carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) demonstration plant in the United Kingdom. The £16.7m (€18.7m) project would start operations in 2021 and would capture CO2 from the flue gases of a 96 MW captive CCGT power plant. It would be able of capturing and producing up to 40,000 tCO2/year, reducing the plant's CO2 emissions by 11%.
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