Biomass-to-electricity plants set for carbon capture retrofit

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Two large volume Greenhouse Gas Removals (GGR) facilities could be operational in north west England by 2030 after being retrofitted to biomass-to-electricity plants.

Render of carbon capture plant retrofitted onto existing Ince Biopower facility
Render of carbon capture plant retrofitted onto existing Ince Biopower facility - Evero

London-headquartered Evero Energy said two of its carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects have passed the ‘deliverability assessment’ in the government’s Hynet Track 1 expansion process, laying the foundation for the delivery of the GGRs.

Both projects are a retrofit of Carbon Capture and Storage on the existing Ince Biopower plant located near Ellesmere Port and the Mersey Bioenergy plant located near Widnes.

Evero said the plants process over 300,000 tonnes of locally sourced waste wood into electricity. With the addition of the CCS plants the assets will generate as much as 400,000 tons of Carbon Dioxide Removals (CDRs) per annum.

In a statement, Simon Hicks, CEO of Evero, said “We’re delighted that the UK government has recognised the quality of our CCS projects. They are of long-term environmental importance to the UK’s commitment to meeting our Net Zero targets, removing over 400,000 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere per year once both plants are operational by 2030.

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