Drax to pull out of £1bn CCS project when it ends

Drax has announced it will withdraw as a partner of a £1 billion carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in the UK when it is completed. The two-year White Rose CCS project is being developed by the Capture Power partnership, which is made up of Drax, Alstom and BOC. It is looking at the potential […]

National Grid awards CCS pipeline contract

National Grid has chosen the company that will develop its planned pipeline to link the White Rose CCS project with a storage site under the North Sea. National Grid Carbon Limited, the subsidiary focused on CCS technology, awarded the multi-million pound Front End Engineering and Design contract to oil and gas engineering firm Genesis. The […]

UK CCS project secures €300m EU funding

A carbon capture and storage project in the UK has been awarded funding worth €300 million (£238m) by the European Commission. The White Rose CCS project, located next to the existing Drax power station in North Yorkshire, includes the development of a new 426MW coal-fired plant which will be able to meet the equivalent power […]

White Rose gets cash to turn black coal green

Power firm Drax and engineers at Alstom and BOC have bagged a multi-million pound contract from the Government for their carbon capture and storage project. The undisclosed amount of cash will go to a study into the costs and possible hurdles for CCS at their £2 billion White Rose project. The White Rose plans are […]

Two bidders for £1bn CCS project announced

The UK Government has announced two preferred bidders for the carbon capture and storage competition worth £1 billion. DECC said the White Rose project in Yorkshire, England and the Peterhead project in Aberdeenshire, Scotland were chosen from a shortlist of four after “intensive commercial negotiations”. The first project involves Alstom, Drax Power, BOC and National […]