Company/Alliance: Tinfos AS, Sør-Norge Aluminium AS, Eramet Norway AS, and Sargas AS
Location: Husnes, Kvinnherad Municipality in Hordaland, Norway
Feedstock: Coal
Size: 400 MW, 2.6 million tonnes of CO2 per year captured and stored
Capture Technology: Post-combustion
CO2 Fate: EOR offshore, North Sea oilfields
Timing: Seeking for bids (2007), project start-up (2008), and production (2011)
Motivation/Economics: The overall cost of the project is NOK 4.5 billion (US $700 million). The Norwegian Clean Energy Group is seeking bids from construction firms to cover the cost of the project. The coal will be combusted at higher pressures, creating a 20 times higher pressure of CO2 in the exhaust than at conventional plants, decreasing the cost of post-combustion separation. The capture rate is greater than 95%.
Comments:
Project Link: Sargas AS
Other Sources and Press Release:
Carbon Dioxide Finds a Market in the North Sea (December 2006)
The world’s first coal power plant with CO2 capture and NOx scrubbing may be built at Husnes [PDF] (November 2006)
‘Clean’ coal power plant plan for Norway (November 2006)
Clean Coal Power Plant Planned For 2011 In Norway (November 2006)
