Drax pulls out of White Rose CCS project
UK energy company Drax has pulled out of plans to develop one of the world’s first commercial scale carbon capture and storage coal-fired power plants.
The company has been a key partner in the White Rose CCS project, which plans to build a new CCS-enabled coal-fired power station next to Drax’s existing plant near Selby, North Yorkshire.
The proposed power station will capture 90 per cent of its carbon emissions, which will be transported through a new pipeline to a permanent storage site beneath the North Sea.
The decision to pull out has reportedly been driven by the government’s reductions in renewables subsidies.
Drax says that it remains committed to fulfilling its current work on feasibility and technology development project at the site but that, once this complete it will not be investing further and will withdraw as a partner of Capture Power Ltd, the developer of the project. The company stressed that it will continue to make the site owned by Drax, along with the infrastructure at the Power Plant, available for the project to be built.
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