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{{#badges:CoalSwarm|Navbar-UnitedKingdomandcoal}}  The '''Don Valley Power Project''' began as the '''Hatfield Power Station,''' a proposed 900-megawatt (MW) coal gasification project in South Yorkshire, England.

==Location==
The map below shows the approximate location where the plant would be built at Stainforth in South Yorkshire. 
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==Background on plant==
The power station was originally proposed by [[Powerfuel]] with a notional commissioning date of 2013.<ref>James Richens, [http://www.endsreport.com/index.cfm?action=report.article&articleID=18544 "King coal promises to clean up"], ''ENDS Report 396'', January 2008, pp 26-29.</ref>

In May 2011, [[2Co Energy]] acquired Powerfuel Power Ltd and the Hatfield Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) project at Stainforth in South Yorkshire and renamed the project the Don Valley Power Project (DVPP). The project is a 900MW [[Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle]] (IGCC) power plant which proposes to capture and store up to 5 million tonnes per year, or 90%, of its CO2 emissions. 2Co Energy plans to store the CO2 in North Sea oil fields.<ref name=2co>[http://www.2coenergy.com/don_valley_power_project.html "Don Valley Power Project"] 2Co Energy, accessed Nov. 2011.</ref> 

2Co said that although the plant has been granted its Section 36 planning application, a final investment decision would only be taken when the project had won financial support from the EU and UK government, anticipated to be taken by mid-2013. 2co stated that, after a construction period of a little over 3 years, the plant should be commissioned in 2016.<ref name=2co/>

===Proposed pipeline route===

In November 2011, National Grid announced the proposed route of the pipe to pump greenhouse gases into the North Sea from Hatfield. The 40-mile (64km) long underground pipeline would stretch from a power station near Doncaster and pass under Market Weighton before crossing the coastline at Barmston. The CO2 would be pumped into porous rocks off the Holderness coast. If approved, construction work would start in 2014. Initially, the the pipeline would carry the carbon dioxide emissions from the planned Don Valley Power Project, but the developers hope that other local facilities producing carbon dioxide emissions, such as the Scunthorpe steel works, could also be connected in the future.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-15781524 "Route of proposed carbon dioxide capture pipe announced"] BBC, Nov. 17, 2011.</ref>

==Success (2010), then failure (2012) at procuring financing==
The Don Valley Project, the company states on its website, has been "awarded €180 million of EU funding in 2010 and planning permission was awarded in 2009. National Grid is currently permitting a pipeline to take the CO2 offshore to North Sea storage sites. The project currently expects to be operational by the end of 2016" with an estimated total cost of "up to £5 billion".<ref>2Co Energy Ltd, [http://www.2coenergy.com/don_valley_power_project.html "Don Valley CCS Project, South Yorkshire, UK"], 2Co Energy website, accessed October 2012.</ref>

In October 2012 the company reported that it had failed to win financial backing from the UK government. CEO Lewis Gillies stated,"This is truly disappointing news for the Doncaster area where we would have built this plant and for our world-class project team working to deliver it. We will complete the current phase of the project and meet the knowledge-share obligations of our existing EEPR funding from the EU but we cannot take this project further without funding from the UK government."<ref name=failure>[http://www.2coenergy.com/latest_news.html "EU's leading carbon capture project fails to win UK government backing,"] 2Co press release, 30 October 2012</ref>

==Sale to Sar Gas==
In July 2014, 2Co Energy report that it was in "exclusive negotiations" to sell the Don Valley project to Sargas, a privately held Norwegian company specialized in CO2 capture technology.<ref name=Sargas>[http://www.2coenergy.com/latest_news.html "Exclusive negotiations for sale of Don Valley Power Project to Sargas,"] 2Co Energy press release</ref>

==Project Details==
*'''Sponsor:''' [[2Co Energy]] (transfer in progress to Sargas)
*'''Parent company:''' 
*'''Developer:'''
*'''Location:''' Stainforth, South Yorkshire, UK
*'''Coordinates:''' 53.595816, -1.019411 (approximate)
*'''Status:''' Shelved
*'''Capacity:''' 900 MW
*'''Type:''' [[IGCC]]
*'''Start date:''' 2016 (original proposal)
*'''Coal Type:''' Hard coal
*'''Coal Source:'''  
*'''Source of financing:''' European Union's Energy Programme for Recovery

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