Teeside Low Carbon

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{{#badges:CoalSwarm|Navbar-UnitedKingdomandcoal}}Teeside Low Carbon is a consortium comprising BOC, GDF SUEZ, Premier Oil and Progressive Energy. Teeside Low Carbon have proposed to build a 450 megawatt Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle plant with pre-combustion capture on a brownfield site on Teeside.

Background

The consortium has stated that it expects that it will "make an investment decision in 2014, subject to appropriate planning and other regulatory approvals."[1]

At the end of October 2012 the Department of Energy and Climate Change announced that the project had been short-listed as one of four bidders "for the next phase of the UK’s £1bn Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) competition."[2]

Articles and Resources

Sources

  1. Progressive Energy, "Welcome", Progressive Energy website, accessed October 2012.
  2. Department of Energy and Climate Change, "Short list for UK’s £1bn CCS competition announced", Media Release, October 30, 2012.

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