SSE submits proposal for gas CCS project at Peterhead

Shell UK and CO₂ DeepStore will also participate in the project by providing the offshore transport and storage elements of the proposal.

The project will design and develop a full-chain, post-combustion CCS facility capable of capturing the CO₂ from one 385MW combined-cycle gas-turbine unit at Peterhead Power Station.

Current plans are that the CO₂ will then be transported through an existing underground pipeline to St Fergus for further compression and then transported via an undersea pipeline to an existing gas reservoir in the North Sea operated by Shell UK that will have ceased production.

The project is sized to be able to participate in the EU’s NER300 and Department of Energy and Climate Change funding programmes, which are aimed at stimulating investment in CCS.

SSE said in July 2010 that it intended to prepare a project proposal for a post-combustion carbon-capture project for a gas-fired power station.

In November 2010 the UK government announced that the second phase of the £9bn CCS demonstration programme — the three projects that will follow the first demonstration — will be open to projects on gas-fired power plants, as well as coal-fired power plants.