Carbon capture pilot gets government support22 March 2010

The government is to invest £6 million in a research, development and demonstration project aimed at putting the UK ahead of the pack in carbon capture for fossil-fired power stations.

Two power plant operators, SSE (Scottish and Southern Energy) and Vattenfall of Sweden, are partnering with Doosan Babcock to develop the facility at SSE's Ferrybridge Power Station in Yorkshire.

They will build Europe's largest post combustion CO2 capture pilot plant.

Three UK universities will also take part in the project, which is being co-funded by the Technology Strategy Board, the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Northern Way partnership.

Testing of Doosan Babcock's CO2 capture technology is due to start early in 2011.

Technology Strategy Board chief executive Iain Gray says: "This project provides a vital link between research and commercialisation for an important technology that can be both installed at new coal and gas power plants and retrofitted to existing plants."

Brian Tinham

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