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SSE Peterhead

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SSE Peterhead: Read more; Capture Method:
Post-combustion
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Facts:

Main developer: Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)

Country: United Kingdom

Project type: Capture Storage

Scale: Large

Status: Identified

Year of operation 2016

Industry: Gas Power Plant

MW capacity: 385 MW

Capture method: Post-combustion

New or retrofit: Retrofit

Transport of CO2 by: Pipeline

Type of storage: Depleted Gas Reservoir

Peterhead power station

In May 2011, Scottish & Southern Energy (SSE) submitted proposals to the EU’s NER 300 funding programme for a CCS project at its gas-fired power station at Peterhead.

The proposed project will design and develop a full chain, post-combustion facility, which will capture CO2 from a 385MW gas turbine unit. The captured gas would then be transported via an existing underground pipeline to St Fergus for eventual storage in the Shell-operated depleted gas reservoir, Goldeneye, below the North Sea. SSE’s project partners include Shell and Petrofac subsidiary CO2DeepStore – which is also involved in the Hunterston CCS project – who will provide the offshore transport and storage elements of the proposal.

In July 2010, SSE expressed its intention to prepare a CCS project proposal for its Peterhead power plant. Since then, the UK government has announced that the next phase of its CCS competition will be open to gas-fired power plants as well as coal-fired facilities, and SSE intends to submit the Peterhead project to this fund as well.

SSE, the UK’s largest generator of electricity from non-nuclear sources, believes Peterhead represents the best site in the UK for a gas CCS project, given the existing infrastructure and storage options that can be exploited.

Peterhead, which is the largest power station in Scotland, was refitted with three new gas turbines in 2000 at an investment of £220 million. Plans for a different capture scheme here were shelved by supermajor BP in 2007 after government delays.

The European Union's NER300 scheme is a €4.5 billion fund to support CCS and renewable projects across the European Union. A final award decision is expected in the second half of 2012. Read ZERO news article.