Jason Ford

Longannet carbon-capture facility plans are shelved

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Plans to develop a carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility at Longannet power station in Scotland have been shelved.

Energy secretary Chris Huhne said in a statement that the decision was made after a failure to reach a satisfactory deal for the project.

The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) says that £1bn in funding will now be made available for other CCS projects from England and Scotland.

‘CCS is a key technology for the UK’s long-term energy strategy,’ said Huhne. ‘A billion pounds is enough to demonstrate this vital new technology in the UK, but it’s got to be spent in the most effective way.

The CCS facility at Longannet — dubbed ’Competition One’ — was being developed by a consortium comprising Scottish Power, National Grid and Shell.

Scottish Power said in a statement that the consortium invested more than £20m to complete the investigation into the potential of the technology and had more than 400 experts from various disciplines — engineering, pipeline, offshore, planning, commercial and legal —  working on CCS for four years.

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