Company/Alliance: UK Government and others TBD
Location: UK. Exact location TBD
Feedstock: Coal
Size: 300-400 MW
Capture Technology: Post combustion Capture (including Oxy-fuel) exact TBD . 90% capture required.
CO2 Fate: Offshore Storage
Timing: Competition prequalification (Mar 2008); Winner announced (May/Jun 2009); Demonstration (2014)
Motivation/Economics: The winner of the competition will recieve up to 100% governmental funding for CCS (not including the powerplant).
Comments: The UK CCS competition was launched in November 2007 for the first UK full-scale CCS demonstration project with governmental backing. BERR, the Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform under the Department of Trade and Industry is organizing the competition. This competition was designed to create a healthy competitive environemtn which will ultimately result in the speedy deployment of CCS in the UK.
This competition is also working to set a framework for subsequent wider deployment of CCS: including regulation, EU ETS, and post 2012 Kyoto agreement.
Project Link: BERR CCS Website
Other Sources and Press Release:
BEER Feature Events and Process database (Mar 2008)
CCS Stakeholders Event [PDF] (Feb 2008)
BERR CCS Demonstration Competition
BERR energy white paper
CICCS homepage
