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National Grid, Petrofac and US-based Summit Power will bid for funding under the next government carbon capture and storage (CCS) competition for a new coal-fired plant at Port of Grangemouth, west of Edinburgh on the Firth of Forth. Environmental groups are dismayed becasue the captured carbon could be used to recover more oil from North Sea wells.
The proposed plant would be owned by Summit, National Grid would transfer the captured cabon via pipeline to the St Fergus entry-exit point, with Petrofac subsidiary CO2 Deep Store then pumping the carbon under the North Sea.
Summit has now confirmed that the proposed plant would be at least 400MW, however an indicative consenting and build schedule are not yet available. Much will depend on the timing and detail of the government’s new CCS competition, details of which are anticipated in the near future.
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