Friday, 7 December 2012

CCS in the UK


The CCSA published a paper on 5th December 2012 discussed about “gas will support decarbonisation of the electricity mix.”

The UK government confirmed a number of steps that would be taken to stimulate investment in gas generation in its Gas Generation Strategy on 5th December 2012. New gas-fired power stations which emits at least have less carbon are going to be built over the following twenty years to replace retiring coal, older gas and nuclear power stations. Also those power stations need to provide the flexibility to balance out increasing amounts of wind and nuclear energy.

Secretary of State Edward Davey said that “The Gas Generation Strategy also confirms the Government’s commitment to supporting the development and commercialisation of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology, which will help to decarbonise gas, as well as coal, in future.”

On 03 April 2012 the UK government launched a new CCS Commercialisation Programme Competition in order to support practical experience in the design, construction and operation of CCS.

There are many CCS project proposals are planned in the UK. Here are two examples given by CCSA.

Don Valley Power Project, Yorkshire.
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. 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.

Caledonia Clean Energy Project, Scotland
Summit Power Group, National Grid, Petrofac - coal feedstock CCS plant;
On 20 March 2012 Summit Power Group announced entering into agreement with National Grid  to seek funding to develop a full-chain commercial-scale CCS plant in the Port of Grangemouth, west of Edinburgh on the Firth of Forth. The plant will use coal feedstock and produce hydrogen gas for commercial use. Carbon dioxide will be captured and transported via pipeline to St Fergus by National Grid Carbon and stored under the North Sea by CO2DeepStore, a Petrofac subsidiary.



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