RWE has given further details on plans for a new gas-fired power plant at Stallingborough.
It is the largest of three major investments being progressed as the German energy giant embraces carbon capture and storage in the UK, with the purpose built proposal alongside two retro-fitting schemes at stations it owns and operates. Investment could total more than £1 billion in North East Lincolnshire alone.
First revealed in December as part of wider plans for the Viking CCS transportation and storage proposals on the South Humber Bank, RWE said it will have a capacity of up to 800MW, enough to power one million homes, while saving millions of tonnes of CO2 annually. It would create 50 permanent jobs, with thousands in the construction process, with hundreds of millions of pounds to be invested.
