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21 August 2007 - Carron Energy Ltd, a UK power producer, won permission to build a gas-fired plant adjacent to its Uskmouth coal-fired station in South Wales. Siemens AG is its preferred engineering company for the project, it said.
The plant got approval from the government's Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Carron said in a statement. It will have a capacity of 800 MW and cost £400 m ($795 m), the company said.
The UK needs to build new power plants to replace stations that will close in the next 10 years and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide. A backlog of applications for new gas-fired plants is being considered by the government, including projects by E.ON and EDF Energy, the U.K. units of Germany and France's biggest utilities.
Work to prepare the Uskmouth site, near Newport, for building has already started, Carron said. The gas-fired plant is due to start in 2010 following a 30-month construction period and four months of commissioning, it said.
Carron selected Siemens as its preferred bidder in a tender for a company to provide the engineering, procurement and construction for the plant, it said in the statement.
The facility will be designed to supply heat as a byproduct ``if the opportunity materializes,' according to the government department's Web site. That would improve the plant's efficiency.
It will also be able to add on technology to capture carbon- dioxide emissions for storage, the department said.
Carron was bought by Deutsche Bank AG, Germany's largest bank, and partners including Trafalgar Asset managers, in April last year.
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