Facts:

This plant is a 3 MW pilot plant, scaling up to 100 MW demonstration plant at Tilbury (see previous project). RWE’s team included BOC (a Linde Group company), Cansolv Technologies Inc., I.M Skaugen SE, The Shaw Group Inc., and Tullow Oil. I.M.

RWE npower has announced plans to design and build a carbon capture pilot plant at a UK coal power station. The first phase is to be located at Aberthaw Power Station in South Wales. An initial £8.4 million investment will focus on a 3 MW capture plant, with further investment planned to support a capture and storage demonstrator plant of at least 25 MW. The larger capture and storage demonstrator plant would form part of one of the new ‘supercritical’ power stations which are currently under feasibility and planning at npower’s existing sites in Tilbury, Essex and at Blyth, Northumberland. The pilot plant is expected to be operational in 2010 and the costs are expected to be about £8.4 million

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