SHELL UK and National Grid are joining ScottishPower’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) consortium.
ScottishPower describes itself as one of the leaders in the UK Government’s competition to develop a commercial-scale CCS project.
It recently switched on a prototype carbon capture test unit at Longannet power station in Fife, the first time in the UK that carbon capture technology has been working on a coal-fired power station.
ScottishPower chief executive Nick Horler said of the new members of the consortium: “Both of these companies will bring specialist knowledge and expertise in the development of this cutting-edge technology.”
John Gallagher, Shell’s technical vice-president for Europe, said: “Shell believes CCS is a technology that will be vital to tackling climate change and we believe it is essential we ‘learn by doing’ to reduce costs, accelerate technology and ultimately make CCS commercially viable.”
Ian Armstrong, the Scottish Council for Development and Industry’s north-east manager, said: “The team now behind Longannet’s bid for the UK CCS competition puts Scotland in pole position to deliver in five years the UK’s first big CCS project.”
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