The company has identified two potential sites for the new gas fired power station including Staythorpe in Nottinghamshire which already has planning consent for a 1,500 MW CCGT and initial groundworks have been carried out. Pembroke, in West Wales, the site of now demolished coal and oil-fired power stations is the alternative where the company is seeking permission for a 2,000 MW CCGT.
The company has appointed Alstom as contractor to carry out the work.
Together with a further 100 MW in wind farm developments, including Little Cheyne Court in Kent and Knabs Ridge in Yorkshire, the project will increase the company’s UK generation capacity by up to 2,100 MW or 23%. RWE npower aims to begin construction of the new gas plant in 2007 with generation commencing in 2009. The £100 million ($200 million) Knabs Ridge and Little Cheyne Court Wind Farms would begin generating in 2008.
RWE has also announced the construction of a gas pipeline between the Czech Republic and Belgium which will begin in Sayda on the Czech border. RWE wants to invest around €1 billion in this link, which is scheduled to come onstream in autumn 2011 and should transport an annual volume of 5bcm of gas to Germany, the UK and the Benelux countries.
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