Eston Grange Power Station

Eston Grange Power Project
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Official nameEston Grange Power Project
CountryEngland, United Kingdom
LocationRedcar and Cleveland.
Coordinates54°34′44″N 1°09′40″W / 54.579°N 1.161°W / 54.579; -1.161
StatusCancelled
Commission date2012 (expected)
OwnerCentrica
Thermal power station
Primary fuelCoal
Power generation
Nameplate capacity850 MW
External links
Websitewww.estongrange.co.uk
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Eston Grange Power Station (also known as Teesside Low Carbon Project) was a proposed power station to be situated near to Eston in Redcar and Cleveland. If built, it would have been the UK's first pre-combustion carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant. The station could have generated up to 850 megawatts of electricity, enough to supply around a million people with electricity. The station would use standard oil refinery technology to turn gasified coal into hydrogen and carbon dioxide.[1][2]

The power station was not built following the cancellation of the UK's Carbon Capture and Storage competition in 2015.

Development

The station was proposed by Centrica in the mid-2000s.[1][3] The station would have been built on a brownfield site, and use integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) technology to generate electricity. The CCS technology used in the power station would have been of the pre-combustion type, capturing approximately 5 million tonnes of CO2 per year. The CO2 would be transported via a 225 km pipeline to saline formations, the pipeline being oversized to allow for use by other emitters. This was planned to include Lynemouth power station as part of the North CCS Cluster. Both projects would share a common pipeline for the transport of CO2, and use the same offshore storage site in the North Sea. There would be the possibility of other emitters joining this network in the future.[3] In 2011, the Eston Grange project was planned to open for commercial operation by 2015.[4]

In 2012, the project - now named Teesside Low Carbon Project - was shortlisted in the Department of Energy and Climate Change Carbon Capture and Storage competition.[5] This would have involved a 330MWe syngas power station, with 90% of the CO2 captured and stored offshore in the North Sea.[2]

In 2014, the project was not shortlisted for further consideration in the Carbon Capture and Storage competition. In November 2015, the £1bn competition itself was cancelled by Chancellor George Osborne.[6][7]

References

  1. ^ a b McKie, Robin. "A big step towards the world's cleanest fuel". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 May 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Teesside Low Carbon (formerly Eston Grange) | Global Carbon Capture and Storage Institute". Global CCS Institute. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  3. ^ a b Loftus, Peter (5 December 2007). "Update on CCS Project in the Tees Valley" (PDF). Zemo Partnership. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  4. ^ "Eston Grange CCS Plant". globalccsinstitute.com/. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  5. ^ "SHORT LIST FOR UK'S £1BN CCS COMPETITION ANNOUNCED". Department of Energy and Climate Change. 30 October 2012. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  6. ^ "UK cancels pioneering £1bn carbon capture and storage competition". the Guardian. 25 November 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
  7. ^ McCusker, Peter (21 January 2016). "Future of £1.5bn North East carbon capture project is in the balance". TeessideLive. Retrieved 28 August 2022.