The funding will support front-end engineering and design (FEED) studies which will enable the bidders to advance their designs for ScottishPower’s CCS project at Longannet in Scotland, and E.ON’s scheme at the Kingsnorth station in southeast England.

The UK is keen to encourage the development of CCS to help meet its domestic target to cut greenhouse emissions by 80% by 2050 and to shore up energy security.

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