Plans have been announced for the development of a new low-carbon power plant west of Edinburgh.
Summit Power Group, a Seattle-based developer of low-carbon electric power projects, has entered into an agreement with National Grid and Petrofac to seek funding for the development—which would include full-chain, commercial-scale carbon capture and storage—at the Port of Grangemouth on the Firth of Forth.
The project, to be named the Caledonia Clean Energy Project, will be submitted to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) for funding under the UK’s Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) Delivery Competition.
With more than 90 per cent carbon capture, the proposed coal feedstock plant would generate extremely low-carbon electric power and also produce hydrogen gas for commercial use. The carbon dioxide (CO2) captured would be transported via pipeline to St. Fergus by National Grid Carbon and then transferred offshore for geological sequestration deep under the North Sea by Petrofac subsidiary, CO2DeepStore.
Summit Power said that the project site has been selected to take advantage of synergies with other facilities for industrial gas supply and to support CO2 capture. It added that the location provides the benefit of being close to the UK North Sea for both CO2 storage and, later, enhanced oil recovery opportunities, and enables the re-use of existing pipelines.
Summit currently has over 7,000 megawatts of electric power plants in operation, and over 2,000 MW in development or under construction. Total Summit-led projects in service or under contract represent over $7 billion of investment.
