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20 March 2009 – UK utility Scottish Power has stepped up its campaign to win around GBP1bn ($1.4bn) from a government competition to develop a full-scale carbon capture power plant.
The Herald reported Nick Horler, chief executive, as saying Scottish Power, owned by Spain’s Iberdrola, could have a “post-combustion, retrofittable demonstration project” up and running at the Longannet coal fired power plant by 2014.
The competition is aimed at developing coal fired power stations that can capture and store carbon dioxide emissions as part of the government’s green energy policy.
Scottish Power’s plan, one of three projects for which power companies are bidding for funding to develop a demonstration project in the government competition, is based at its existing plant at Longannet in Fife.
The aim is for machines to operate at the Fife power station to capture the carbon dioxide produced by using coal and storing it in porous rocks in the North Sea.
The plan also envisages using the same pipeline network that brings energy into the UK for sending the extracted carbon dioxide the other way – from central Scotland down to Teesside out to the North Sea.
Humberside and the Forth Valley are also being considered as key “emitting hubs” for the carbon dioxide.
The other two groups in the competition are E.ON, which is looking at fitting carbon capture to part of its controversial new plant at Kingsnorth in Kent, and RWE Npower, which is planning a new plant at Tilbury in Essex.
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