Jobs hope in carbon capture pipeline project

2CO Energy: Don Valley Power Project

The Hatfield scheme is the most advanced and the only one in the UK so far to have attracted state funding. It won an EU grant worth £165m in December 2009 to construct a 900MW coal-fired power station at Hatfield Colliery. It has also bid for the next round of EU funding, with a decision due next February.

Drax

The owners of Europe’s largest coal-fired power station, pictured, want to construct a 426MW stand-alone CCS plant alongside its existing operations at Selby. Drax is working alongside French engineering giant Alstom on the project. It too has bid for EU funding.

Killingholme

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Belgian power firm C:GEN is proposing a 430MW ‘clean gas’ CCS plant next to the Humber Sea Terminal at Killingholme, North Lincolnshire, on the south bank of the River Humber. It is the third Yorkshire-based bidder for EU funds.

Ferrybridge

Scottish and Southern Energy will begin the UK’s first carbon and capture trial at its Ferrybridge Power Station in West Yorkshire later this year. The small-scale 5MW project will test carbon capture technology at the existing power plant, aiming to capture around 100 tonnes of carbon every day for two years.

There is no storage element involved in the trial, however, and the CO2 will simply be released into the atmosphere afterwards.