Abby L. Harvey
GHG Monitor
4/3/2015
Royal Dutch Shell had officially submitted a planning application for its Peterhead carbon capture and storage project with local officials in Scotland, marking a major step forward in the development of the project. The Peterhead project will retrofit CCS technology onto a 385 MW portion of an existing gas-fired power plant in Scotland, transporting the CO2 via the existing Goldeneye underground pipeline and storing it in a depleted gas field in the North Sea. The project is expected to capture about 90 percent of the CO2 from the power station, at 1 million tonnes of CO2 a year. “If approved, the Peterhead CCS Project will be the first full-scale gas CCS Project in the UK and the world. It is highly supportive of CCS and low carbon legislation and will be extremely valuable for proving the feasibility and viability of commercial-scale CCS and reducing the cost of decarbonising the energy sector,” says the application, submitted to the Aberdeenshire Council.
According to the application, Shell has anticipated that construction on the project will run from 2017-2019 and will be completed between 2019 and 2020. “Onshore construction work for the Project is set to take approximately 36 months. Shell has the knowledge, expertise and experience to deliver this Project safely and efficiently.” the repost says, noting that offshore construction will be limited to summer and will also take place between 2017-2019. The Peterhead project is supported by U.K. energy company SSE Generation Limited.
National Grid Contract Awarded
Peterhead also celebrated late last week the receipt of a £15 million contract with National Grid to provide voltage support to the counrty’s national grid. “This announcement is positive news for Peterhead,” SSE Managing Director of Energy Portfolio Management, Jim Smith said in a release. “SSE has continually invested in the site since it opened in 1980 and we’re pleased Peterhead will continue to play an important role in ensuring National Grid can provide system stability and resilience going forward.”
