Caledonia Clean Energy Project
{{#Badges: CoalSwarm|Navbar-UnitedKingdomandcoal|Navbar-cleancoal}}The Captain Clean Energy Project, formerly named the Caledonia Clean Energy Project, is a proposed "commercial-scale" carbon capture and storage coal-fired plant on the Firth of Forth, Scotland.
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Location
The project has been proposed to be built at the Port of Grangemouth, west of Edinburgh.
Background
The project of unspecified size was proposed by Summit Power Group in a bid for funding as a demonstration Carbon Capture and Storage project.
In March 2012 the Summit Power Group from the US announced that it had entered into an agreement with National Grid and Petrofac to seek funding from the UK government’s Carbon Capture & Storage Delivery Competition. The company announced few details of the project other than that it was proposing to build a "commercial-scale" coal-fired plant to produce electricity and hydrogen for commercial customers with the captured carbon dioxide "transported via pipeline to St. Fergus by National Grid Carbon and then transferred offshore for geological sequestration deep under the North Sea by Petrofac subsidiary, CO2DeepStore."[1]
As of mid-2014, the project appears to be making some progress toward eventually securing financial support. The sponsor reports the following milestones:[2]
- March 2012: Summit Power Group enters a bidding agreement with National Grid and Petrofac to seek funding for its Caledonia Clean Energy Project (later renamed the Captain Clean Energy Project).
- October 2012: The UK Government selects the Captain Clean Energy Project as one of four successful projects shortlisted to continue the next stage of its GB£1 billion CCS Commercialisation Programme Competition.
- March 2013: The UK Government appoints the Captain Clean Energy Project as one of two reserve projects for its CCS Commercialisation Programme.
- December 2013: Under the UK Energy Act 2013, the Captain Clean Energy Project is eligible for a Contract for Difference (CfD) at a strike price to be negotiated with the UK Government.
Project Details
- Sponsor: Summit Power Group
- Parent company:
- Developer: Summit Power, National Grid, Petrofac, Siemens
- Location: Grangemouth, West of Edinburgh on the Firth of Forth, Scotland
- Coordinates: 56.012083, -3.697175 (approximate)
- Status: Pre-permit development
- Gross Capacity: 570 MW
- Type: Carbon capture and storage
- Start date:
- Coal Type: Hard coal
- Coal Source:
- Source of financing: UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (UK's carbon capture and storage commercialization programme)
Citzens Groups Campaigning on the project
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ Summit Power Group, "Summit Power, National Grid and Petrofac Team Up on DECC Carbon-Capture Programme in UK", Media Release, March 20, 2012.
- ↑ "Captain Clean Energy Project (formerly Caledonia Energy Project," Global CCS Institute, accessed July 2014
