Before we start to talk about CCS at power stations, let’s look at some news about CCS from Research Councils UK.
“In April 2012, The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) announced a £13 million investment to establish a UK Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Research Centre.”
“EPSRC plans to invest approximately £10 million over a five-year period while DECC has started its CCS commercialisation programme and roadmap which will set out the Government’s vision for achieving commercial deployment of CCS in the UK in the 2020s, including investing £125 million in CCS research and development from the year 2011 to 2015.”
Now let’s look at the application of carbon capture and storage in power stations. There are many proposals of CCS in power stations in the UK, today I will focus on Cottam power stations.
“In April 2012, The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) announced a £13 million investment to establish a UK Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Research Centre.”
“EPSRC plans to invest approximately £10 million over a five-year period while DECC has started its CCS commercialisation programme and roadmap which will set out the Government’s vision for achieving commercial deployment of CCS in the UK in the 2020s, including investing £125 million in CCS research and development from the year 2011 to 2015.”
Now let’s look at the application of carbon capture and storage in power stations. There are many proposals of CCS in power stations in the UK, today I will focus on Cottam power stations.
A view of the coal-fuelled Cottam power station in Retford, U.K.
Cottam power stations has a pair of power stations (Cottam power station and Cottam development centre), located at Cottam near Retford in Nottinghamshire. Cottam power station is owned by EDF energy , whereas Cottam development centre is owned by E.ON UK.
Cottam power station is a coal- filled power station which has a generating capacity of 2 million kilowatts (kW) per year. It generates about 4% of total electricity supply of the UK market. In 2007, WWF ranked Cottam power station as the second of UK’s worst climate polluting power station, and the 20th in the EU (WWF, 2007). In the year 2006, it has around 10,029,024 Tonnes of carbon dioxide emission with near 940g carbon dioxide released per kWh electricity generated.
Next post I will talk about how CCS works at Cottam power station, how much carbon emission can be reduced and what is the cost.
Reference:
- Research Councils UK. http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/Pages/Home.aspx
- EDF Energy's coal-fired power stations.http://www.edfenergy.com/energyfuture/edf-energys-approach-why-edf-energy/coal-and-edf-energy
- Europe’s Dirty 30, WWF (2007). http://awsassets.panda.org/downloads/european_dirty_thirty_may_2007.pdf
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