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Too little, too late for CCS in the UK
UK efforts to become a leader in CCS technology are gathering momentum, but the small scale of planned projects highlights the gulf between what is possible now and what is needed in the future
The UK government confirmed in November that any new coal-fired power station in England and Wales needs to incorporate a commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration, covering CO2 capture, transport and storage, on at least 300 megawatts (MW) of the plant's capacity. That would cover perhaps a quarter or less of a typical power station's generating capacity. If the trials go well, the government's ambition is to see CCS ready for wider deployment from 2020 and for CCS to be applied to the whole output from any new coal plant constructed from then on. Demonstration plants existing at that time would be required to retrofit CCS to cover their full capacity by 2025. That approach is in step with the advice of the International Energy Agency, which says in its Word Energy Outlook 2009 that commercial-scale CCS is ...Click here to continue reading Too little, too late for CCS in the UK
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