Carbon Capture and Sequestration via CCS Clusters

Carbon Capture and Sequestration via CCS Clusters

E.ON has submitted environmental scoping reports outlining the company's plans for a CO2 pipeline for its proposed Kingsnorth cleaner coal-fired power station.

The plans are part of a vision for Kingsnorth to be the gateway to CCS development in the UK, enabling the future development of a ‘CCS Cluster' in the South East.

The scoping reports outline the steps the company will take towards developing final plans for the pipeline, which will go across the Hoo Peninsula and then be placed in a trench on the seabed taking it to the depleted North Sea gas fields which will be used for storage.

The pipeline would have sufficient capacity in the long term to allow a ‘Thames Cluster' of carbon capture projects to be developed, transporting 24 million tonnes of CO2 each year to storage sites under the North Sea. This equates to the emissions from around two supercritical Kingsnorth-sized coal-fired power stations and three Grain-sized gas-fired CHP power stations.
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