Twenty one member states submitted a total of 78 proposals to the scheme, including 65 renewables projects, by its 9 May deadline. Seven countries applied for funding for the 13 CCS projects.
The European Investment Bank will now spend nine months evaluating each project, and a final award decision is expected from the European Commission in the second half of 2012. Up to three projects in each member state may be supported.
The majority of CCS proposals came from the UK, which submitted seven projects:
- Alstom Consortium’s new Drax oxyfuel supercritical power station, Yorkshire
- C.GEN’s IGCC power station at Killingholme, Yorkshire
- Scottish Power’s post-combustion capture project at Longannet power station, Scotland
- Peel Energy’s new supercritical coal-fired power station with PCC at Hunterston, Scotland
- Don Valley Power Project’s (formerly Hatfield) new IGCC power station in Yorkshire, already awarded €180-million from the European Energy Programme for Recovery (EEPR)
- Progressive Energy's consortium bid for a pre-combustion coal gasification project in Teesside
- Scottish & Southern Energy’s PCC retrofit at an existing CCGT power station at Peterhead, Scotland
The UK government has already committed to public sector investment in four CCS projects and aims to launch its selection process later this year. More details here.
Six other European countries have submitted one CCS project apiece, namely:
- Air Liquide’s Rotterdam-based hydrogen project in the Netherlands
- Italy’s Porto Tolle PCC project in Italy, already awarded €100 million from the EEPR
- ArcelorMittal’s capture project at its Florange steelworks, northern France
- Germany’s Jänshwalde project, which has received €180 million from the EEPR for an oxyfuel coal-based project
- An amine-based CCS demo project at Belchatow power plant in Poland, which has received €180 million from the EEPR
- The Turceni power plant, in Romania, which is planning a PCC facility with storage in nearby aquifers
More information about NER300 here
NER300’s project proposals list
