The White Rose CCS Project: An Update on the World’s First Commercial Scale Oxy-Fuel CCS Plant
(Room D203, Elicium, Second Floor)
09 Jun 15
2:00 PM
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3:30 PM
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Theme: The Big Carbon Question
White Rose, a new 426 MW power plant fitted with carbon capture and storage (CCS), aims to be the world’s first installed at commercial scale using oxy-fuel technology. Delivery of the project is through a strong industrial consortium formed by Alstom, BOC and Drax: Capture Power Ltd, in partnership with National Grid Carbon Limited. The project is currently in FEED stage, having been awarded a contract in December 2013 by the UK Government under the UK CCS Commercialisation programme. White Rose has additionally secured an award decision in 2014 for EU funding during the operational phase, as the sole CCS project in the NER300 programme.
CCS is recognised globally as being critical in combating climate change and recent studies for the UK demonstrate power generation that includes CCS reduces the electricity price by 15% in 2030 compared to scenarios without CCS (TUC and CCSA 2014). As the anchor project for the regional CO2 Transport & Storage infrastructure, White Rose supports competitive power costs through enabling economies of scale and as the first UK CCS project seeking capital through commercial funding sources, paves the way for new CCS financing models. Additionally, White Rose looks to prove the benefits of oxy-fuel CCS in balancing intermittency of renewable supply and complementing base-load nuclear through flexible operation, reducing the need for costly back-up capacity requirements.
Overall, White Rose aims to demonstrate that abated fossil-fuel power stations with CCS will be able to generate flexible, reliable and affordable power as base-load as well as mid-merit plants, providing security of supply and grid stability as a core part of the low-carbon energy system of the future. This presentation provides an update and insight into the status of White Rose and progress to date.