Lord Ezra – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Energy and Climate Change

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Lord Ezra on 2014-03-24.

To ask Her Majesty’s Government when they expect a demonstration plant for carbon capture and storage to be in operation in the United Kingdom.

Baroness Verma

The first commercial scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Plants in the UK are being brought forward through the Government’s CCS Commercialisation Programme. The Government has set aside £1 billion to support the first CCS projects in the UK, and is investing around £100m now to take two innovative projects forward into the detailed engineering and design phase known as FEED.

The Peterhead and White Rose FEED studies have now commenced. We have taken time to develop a detailed FEED programme that will deliver the outputs necessary to take a final investment decision with confidence. The companies involved will take investment decisions in late 2015, with Government taking decisions shortly after. We expect projects to be under construction as soon as possible after the necessary consents and financing are in place.