
On 22 January Uniper announced the award of front end engineering design contracts to two companies, Technip Energies and Worley. The FEED phase started at end-December 2024 and is expected to take around a year to complete. The two contractors will design and submit development plans and compete to be selected as the final contractor for an engineering, procurement and construction contract to build the plant.
The FEED competition is the next step in the potential development of a low carbon combined-cycle gas turbine power station at Uniper’s Connah’s Quay site near Liverpool in the UK. The new plant, Connah’s Quay Low Carbon Power, would be fitted with carbon capture technology to capture CO2 emissions, and connect into nearby CO2 transport and storage infrastructure as part of the HyNet industrial cluster, enabling the captured CO2 to be transported to permanent offshore storage facilities in repurposed depleted offshore gas fields.
Formal statutory consultation on plans for the new power station closed on 19 November 2024, and a Development Consent Order (DCO) application is due to be submitted later this year.
Christophe Malaurie, SVP Decarbonisation Solutions of Technip Energies, commented: “By leveraging our unique carbon capture solution, Canopy by T.EN powered by the Shell CANSOLV CO2 capture system, we are committed to making this project a success, playing an active role to deliver low carbon power generation at scale and support the UK energy transition.”