Carbon capture project success in the Humber and the Tees has been welcomed by the managing director of the overarching East Coast Cluster.
A total of 14 participating schemes have been selected to progress to the due diligence phase of the government’s cluster sequencing process. They were approved by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy last week, from a 25-strong submission made in March.
Andy Lane heads up both the Northern Endurance Partnership, the carbon capture infrastructure network that links the two regions below the North Sea, and the wider East Coast Cluster delivery body. It was fast-tracked as a first phase forerunner for UK carbon capture deployment in October, with the potential to transport and securely store up to 20 million tonnes of CO2 per year by 2030 – around 50 per cent of all UK industrial cluster emissions.
May saw Equinor and BP awarded carbon storage licence s for the southern North Sea. The recent announcement focuses on those feeding in.
Mr Lane, who is vice president for carbon capture use and storage at BP, a partner with Equinor, National Grid Ventures, Shell and Total Energies, said: “The East Coast Cluster will enable an unparalleled and diverse mix of low-carbon projects that will create and support thousands of skilled jobs in exciting new industries.
“I congratulate the projects who have been shortlisted for potential first connection to the East Coast Cluster. We will continue to work closely with these projects and all of our potential carbon capture partners as we continue the journey to making the UK a world leader in CCUS.”
ECC brings together Zero Carbon Humber and Net Zero Teesside, the initial bodies that brought together the individual industrial clusters.
As reported, successful projects in the initial stage are:
Net Zero Teesside Power
Whitetail Clean Energy
Keadby 3 Carbon Capture Power Station
BP H2 Teesside
H2 North East
Hydrogen to Humber Saltend
CF Fertilisers Billingham Ammonia CCS
Tees Valley Energy Recovery Facility Project
Norsea Carbon Capture
Redcar Energy Centre
Teesside Hydrogen CO2 Capture
Humber Zero – Phillips 66 Humber Refinery
Prax Lindsey Oil Refinery Carbon Capture Project
ZerCaL250
Six more projects progressed from fellow forerunner Hynet, located in the North West and North Wales.
Not making the cut in the phase two element from the East Coast Cluster were:
- VPI Humber Zero
- Alfaar CCGT Teesside
- C.Gen Killingholme
- Uniper Humber Hub Blue
- STV 1&2
- STV 3
- Altalto Immingham
- Lighthouse Green Fuels
- Saint Gobain Glass
- Teesside Green Energy Park Ltd
- North Lincolnshire Green Energy Park
It is understood influencing factors included construction and consent position at the time of the bid, with those not making the list likely to go again in future rounds as the strategy develops and volume-based targets increase.
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