Company/Alliance: Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), Doosan Babcock, Siemens, and UK Coal
Location: Ferrybridge Station, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Feedstock: Coal
Size: 500 MW- Retrofit with supercritical boiler and turbine, 1.7 million tonnes of CO2 per year captured and stored
Capture Technology: Post-combustion capture and PC (supercritical retrofit)
CO2 Fate: Sequestration
Timing: High-level engineering feasibility studies (completed), front-end engineering design (2007), investment decision (2007), operation of the supercritical plant (2011-2012)
Motivation/Economics: The total cost will include ₤250 million (US$ 504 million) for installation of the supercritical plant and ₤100 million (US$ 201 million) for post-combustion capture. Doosan Babcock (previously Mitsui Babcock), Siemens and UK Coal will undertake the front end engineering design of the carbon capture.
Comments: The retrofit with the supercritical boiler and turbine will save through an efficiency increase from 36% to 45% 500,000 tonnes of CO2 per year. In 2003, the Ferrybridge Station was listed as the second highest polluter in the UK.
Project Link: Plans for the UK's First Cleaner Coal Power Plant at Ferrybridge Power Station (May 2006)
Other Sources and Press Release:
Scottish and Southern Energy Generation plans (October 07)
Profits up in line with expectations at Scottish and Southern Energy (May 2006)
Mitsui Babcock wins first clean coal contract in the UK (May 2006)
Campaigners name 'top polluters' (August 2003)
