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12 October 2007 - The Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA) has berated the UK government's decision to disregard pre-combustion from its forthcoming carbon capture and storage (CCS) competition, saying that the move would lead to the abandonment of several projects.
On Wednesday (10 October), Business and Enterprise Secretary John Hutton announced further terms of the UK's Competition to build a CCS demonstration plant.
The announcement delivered a blow to the confidence of sectors of the CCS industry by specifying that the project should "demonstrate post-combustion
CCS on a coal-fired power station, with CO2 stored offshore" and should capture 90 per cent of "the CO2 emitted by the equivalent of 300 MW generating capacity".
CCSA Chief Executive Dr Jeff Chapman said: " It was expected that the Competition would herald a programme of UK CCS plants, across all technologies. By choosing to support only one modestly sized project, the opportunity to make the UK a world leader in this important area will be missed.
"This news has severely damaged the confidence of sectors of the industry, and will result in several projects being abandoned after considerable development costs.
"This particularly affects several pre-combustion CCS projects that were significantly advanced in their development with a total capacity well over ten times the size of this proposal and would likely be installed in a faster timeframe than that envisaged in the announcement."
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