The German-owned utility says it would use the money in part to begin building a pipeline that would transport carbon dioxide (CO2) once it has been captured at a series of power stations that could be built in south east England, known as the ‘Thames cluster’.
“Out vision is for Kingsnorth to act as the gateway to CCS development¿[with] power stations and industrial sites in the south east hooking up to a single CO2 pipeline,” says Andy Read, clean-coal business development manager for E.ON