RWE npower sets up UK carbon capture group

20 March 2008 15:13  [Source: ICIS news]

TORONTO (ICIS news)--RWE npower, the UK-based arm of German energy major RWE, has formed a partnership with five firms to develop a carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project in the UK, it said on Thursday.

 

The partnership was part of RWE npower’s application for the UK government’s CCS demonstration competition, with a preferred bidder expected to be announced by mid-2009, it said.

 

“CCS is currently unproven at the level needed for full-scale power generation, but if it can be demonstrated to work, the potential for global CO2 reductions is huge,” said RWE npower CEO Andy Duff.

 

“Our new project partners have the experience, skill and commitment to meet the challenges of this new technology.”

 

The partners are industrial gases group Linde/BOC, petrochemicals engineering firm Shaw Group and Tullow Oil, Cansolv Technologies and IM Skaugen.

 

In a separate statement, US-based Shaw Group said the partnership involved the development of two new CCS-ready supercritical coal-fired power stations considered at Tilbury, Essex, and Blyth, Northumberland.

 

If built, the plants would replace three existing coal-fired units at Tilbury and four coal-fired units at Didcot in Oxfordshire which will close by 2015, Shaw said.

 

It did not disclose financial terms.

By: Stefan Baumgarten
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