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Monday, March 1, 2010
Source: Reuters
E.ON UK's initial carbon dioxide pipeline plans for the Kingsnorth clean coal power station would be able to take emissions from other sources to be buried too, the German utility said on Monday.
Crossing the Hoo Peninsula in southeast England, the pipeline would be big enough to transport the carbon emissions of two 1,600 megawatt Kingsnorth type power plants and three smaller 500 megawatt combined heat and power (CHP) plants.
The pipeline is expected to be able to shift 24 million tonnes of trapped carbon dioxide a year be stored in depleted North Sea gas fields, allowing a cluster of carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects to be developed in the same area.
The final pipeline proposals are expected to be submitted to Medway local government council by the end of the year, E.ON said.
"Far from being just about one project, we believe that Kingsnorth has an exciting role to play as a gateway to unlocking the south east energy industry's potential to decarbonise," E.ON project development manager Ed Walker said.
E.ON's Kingsnorth CCS power plant is in its entry for the British government's CCS competition, despite delaying the project which would take it beyond the contest deadline of 2014.
The other two groups also in the competition are a consortium led by ScottishPower, a unit of Spain's Iberdrola, including Shell UK Limited and National Grid, and another, led by RWE npower.
The competition would provide up to 1 billion pounds ($1.49 billion) of funding from the government to spend on the carbon cutting technology.
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