Energy giant E.On has this week submitted an entry for European funding in support of its proposed carbon capture and storage development at Kingsnorth, in Kent.
The company has already been short-listed in the UK Government’s competition to demonstrate the capture, transportation and storage of carbon from a large-scale project and now hopes also to secure support from the European Energy Programme for Recovery.
E.On UK’s clean coal business development manager Andy Read said: “CCS is an essential technology for reducing global emissions, and needs to be developed rapidly if the UK, and Europe, is to play its part in the fight against climate change.
“Our vision is for Kingsnorth to act as the gateway to CCS development, and therefore to the decarbonisation of energy, through the creation of a ‘Thames Cluster’ that could see power stations and industrial sites in the South-east of England hooking up to a single carbon pipeline.”
He said a cluster approach would “future proof” the development of CCS by allowing new facilities to connect quickly to a system that would work much like the existing national grids for gas supplies and for electricity transmission.
E.On UK’s clean coal business development manager Andy Read said: “CCS is an essential technology for reducing global emissions, and needs to be developed rapidly if the UK, and Europe, is to play its part in the fight against climate change.
“Our vision is for Kingsnorth to act as the gateway to CCS development, and therefore to the decarbonisation of energy, through the creation of a ‘Thames Cluster’ that could see power stations and industrial sites in the South-east of England hooking up to a single carbon pipeline.”
He said a cluster approach would “future proof” the development of CCS by allowing new facilities to connect quickly to a system that would work much like the existing national grids for gas supplies and for electricity transmission.
Source: Construction News
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