Scottish Carbon Capture & Storage (SCCS) has welcomed today’s announcement that the Peterhead CCS Project has signed an agreement with the UK Government for a front-end engineering and design (FEED) study.
This is a crucial milestone on its path to becoming the world’s first large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) project at a gas-fired power plant, maximising re-use of existing infrastructure and using a depleted gas reservoir offshore for CO2 storage.
The demonstration project is being developed by Shell UK Limited, with strategic support from SSE, in the north east of Scotland. It is one of two to be shortlisted by the UK Government in its CCS Commercialisation Programme. The White Rose CCS Project in Yorkshire recently secured its own design funding.
Peterhead will capture and store up to 90% of the CO2 emissions from one of the power station’s three turbines, cleaning up North Sea gas feedstock and providing a low-carbon source of electricity for homes and businesses across the UK.
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