Captain Clean Energy Project (formerly Caledonia Clean Energy Project)

Location: Scotland, United Kingdom

Proponent: Summit Power

Technical aspects

• Summit Power proposes to build a new 400 MWe integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plant at the Port of Grangemouth in Scotland.
• The proposed plant would be a replication of Summit Power’s Texas Clean Energy Project, for which a final investment decision is expected to be made in the first half of 2013.
• Up to 90 percent of the plant’s carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions would be captured at the IGCC plant.
• CO₂ be captured at the plant is planned to be transported by pipeline to the North Sea for storage, and possibly used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR).

Key deliverables

• Agreements have been signed with National Grid and CO2DeepStore (a subsidiary of Petrofac) for the transport of CO₂onshore and offshore respectively.
• Negotiations with EOR operators in the North Sea are underway.
• The project could become operational in 2018.

In October 2012, the Captain Clean Energy Project was announced to be shortlisted for funding under the United Kingdom’s GBP1 billion CCS Commercialisation Programme.