The DECC has short listed four bidders for the next phase of the £1bn (€1.24bn) CCS competition. The UK is providing funding to support the development of CCS technology, which if developed at scale, could allow the safe removal and storage of harmful carbon emissions from coal and gas plant. The four were selected from eight bids received after a thorough evaluation process that considered project deliverability, value for money, and the Government’s timetable to deliver a cost-competitive CCS industry in the 2020s.
The four short listed bids, all full chain capture, transport and storage projects, are the following:
- Captain Clean Energy Project: A proposal for a new 570 MW, fully abated coal Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (pre-combustion) project in Grangemouth, Scotland with storage in offshore depleted gas fields. Led by Summit Power, involving Petrofac (CO2 Deepstore), National Grid and Siemens.
- Peterhead: A 340 MW Post-combustion capture retrofitted to part of an existing 1180 MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine power station at Peterhead, Scotland. Led by Shell and SSE.
- Teesside Low Carbon Project: A Pre-combustion coal gasification project (linked to 330 MWe net power generating capacity fuelled by syngas with 90% of CO2 abated) on Teesside, North East England with storage in depleted oil field and saline aquifer. Led by Progressive Energy and involving GDF SUEZ, Premier Oil, and BOC.
- White Rose Project: An Oxyfuel capture project at a proposed new 304 MW fully abated supercritical coal-fired power station on the Drax site in North Yorkshire. Led by Alstom and involving Drax, BOC and National Grid.