Facts:

Main developer: Alstom Veolia

In May 2010, joint partners EDF, Veolia and Alstom announced the start of a project to build and operate a CCS demonstration plant at EDF’s coal-fired power plant at Le Havre, in Normandy. The project secured the backing of the French agency ADEME.

The pilot plant, to be fitted to Unit 4 of the facility, will test amine-based post-combustion capture technology – which has been developed by Alstom and Dow Chemical Company – that will have a specific use within the electricity generating sector. As well as testing the solvent and technology, the pilot will attempt to reduce amine and energy use, with a view to making the technology more commercially viable.

Veolia will be engaged in treating effluents from the demo unit and evaluating the CO2 captured.

Financing

The $27 million project has secured 25% funding from the Research Demonstrator Fund, which is administered by France’s national agency ADEME.

Timing

The project will run from 2010 to 2013 and will be conducted in three stages – research, construction and operation.

More information and press releases

EDF press release (in French), 25 may 2010

Powergen article 25 May 2010

Contact info

EDF Caroline Muller, caroline-c.muller@edf.fr
Alstom Susanne Shields, susanne.shields@power.alstom.com
Veolia Environnement Stéphane Galfré, stephane.galfre@veolia.com