Teesside Collective, an industrial CCS project based in the northeast of the UK, is fulfilling its aim of attracting further investment to the region and reducing industrial carbon emissions with the recent recruitment of two new industrial partners. The Collective, which has received funding from the UK’s former Department of Energy and Climate Change, is now issuing a tender for a pilot project.
The contract is to:
• Design a CO2 capture unit at Lotte Chemicals in Wilton and develop a business case to sell the CO2. Lotte Chemicals makes the PPT needed for the bottles used by major soft drink manufacturers.
• Design a demonstration centre which can be accessed by companies wanting to scale up carbon utilisation technologies and produce a corresponding business case.
Teesside Collective is being led by Tees Valley Unlimited (TVU), part of the Tees Valley Combined Authority, which is working with major employers in Teesside including Lotte Chemical, BOC, CF Fertilisers, Sembcorp Utilities UK and SABIC. These organisations are all members of NEPIC, the industrial cluster also active in the Collective.
The focus in the UK has previously been on commercialising CCS for electricity generation. Teesside Collective is somewhat different. Its premise is that a range of industries, potentially including power, would be able to capture their emissions, putting them into a shared pipeline network, from where they are available for utilisation, transformation or storage under the North Sea.
