The Planning Inspectorate’s recommendation on Keadby Three Carbon Capture Power Station is one of the first documents to land on the new Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s desk.
Jacob Rees-Mogg has been sent the findings and conclusions following the examination into the huge project from SSE Thermal and Equinor.
The completion has been confirmed by examining inspector Christopher Butler, with the recommendation remaining private. Mr Rees-Mogg will now have three months to make a decision, having been appointed after Kwasi Kwarteng took the "honour of a lifetime" to become Chancellor.
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It drops as Keadby Two - a new highly efficient gas-fired power station - closes in on commissioning completion at the site west of Scunthorpe.
Keadby Three would feature technology to abate emissions, plugging the 900MW generation into the Zero Carbon Humber plan to decarbonise the Energy Estuary.
It is eyed up for potential introduction by 2027, and forecast to capture around 1.5 million tonnes of CO2 annually. It would represent an investment of several hundred million pounds.
Since it has been in the development process, having been accepted in late June last year, Keadby Hydrogen has also been brought forward, again from SSE and Equinor. It would generate from the low carbon fuel, with Equinor behind plans for two production sites on the Humber, H2H Saltend and a second understood to be on the South Bank.
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