The UK’s Energy and Climate Change secretary Edward Davey has announced that the government will be awarding funding to further the White Rose CCS project. He made his announcement at the opening ceremony of the new Drax coal-to-biomass conversion plant, which is on the same site.
Funding will come from the multi-million pound FEED study. The aim of the White Rose project is to design a c. £2 billion c. 600 MW state-of-the-art coal plant with full CC. It also includes the planned development of a CO2 transport and storage network – the Yorkshire Humber CCS Trunkline – which would have capacity for additional CCS projects in the area. This innovative project has the potential to create up to 2000 jobs and safely capture 90% of the plant’s emissions.
