Aberdeenshire and Yorkshire projects to compete for CCS funding

The Peterhead Project in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the White Rose Project in Yorkshire, England were scrutinised against criteria including project deliverability, value for money and the UK’s timetable to deliver a cost-competitive CCS industry in the 2020s.

CCS technology, if developed at scale, could allow the safe removal and storage of carbon emissions from coal and gas fired power stations to help the UK meet its climate change targets.

Secretary of state for energy and climate change, Edward Davey said: ‘These two are major infrastructure projects potentially worth several billion pounds and could support thousands of construction jobs over the next few years.’

The Peterhead Project in Aberdeenshire, Scotland involves capturing around 90 per cent of the carbon dioxide from part of the existing gas fired power station at Peterhead.

Up to 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions could be captured from power station and then be transported by pipeline and stored approximately 100km offshore in the depleted Goldeneye gas reservoir, more than 2km under the North Sea.