Tuesday, Nov 10, 2009

E.ON has today (MON) confirmed that it has submitted an Outline Solution Bid in order to enter the next stage of the UK Government’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) competition.

The company has entered its proposed 1,600MW Kingsnorth supercritical coal-fired power station in the competition.

Dr Paul Golby, Chief Executive of E.ON UK, said: “We still firmly believe that we have the best scheme to meet the competition’s objectives of developing the UK’s first commercial-scale demonstration of CCS.

“As far as the E.ON Group is concerned, Kingsnorth is part of a wider initiative to help lead the way in carbon capture and storage, which has the potential to be part of the global solution to the global issue of climate change.

“For example, we’ve already started work on a 1,100MW plant in the Netherlands that received planning permission some time ago and we hope it will become one of the first power plants in the world to demonstrate CCS technology at a commercial scale.”

E.ON’s partners in the scheme are:

• Arup – project management;
• Electric Power Research Institute – international technology dissemination;
• Foster Wheeler – capture plant engineering and project management;
• Mitsubishi Heavy Industries – carbon capture technology supplier;
• Penspen – pipeline transportation;
• E.ON Gas Storage – carbon dioxide storage.

E.ON continues to believe that carbon capture and storage in the UK will be best delivered by establishing CCS ‘clusters’ that can cope with the emissions of several power stations rather than just a single one.

E.ON’s entry calls for a 270km subsea pipeline from the capture site to the depleted Hewett gas field in the southern North Sea using a 36in pipeline capable of transporting CO2 from approximately 5,000MW of coal-fired power plant.

E.ON is one of the UK’s leading power and gas companies – generating and distributing electricity, and retailing power and gas – and is part of the E.ON group, one of the world’s largest investor-owned power and gas companies. We employ more than 16,000 people in the UK and more than 92,000 worldwide.

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