A
bumper summer pack of CCS news for everyone today...
31
May - First UK coal retrofit proposed
Scottish
and Southern Energy plc ("SSE") has entered into an agreement with
Mitsui Babcock, Siemens and UK Coal to undertake the front end engineering
design of a carbon capture ready 500MW cleaner coal plant at its Ferrybridge
Power Station in West Yorkshire.
29
May - Sir David King wants even more nuclear power.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,,1785133,00.html
28
May - Shell and Statoil seek partner to build power station for new 'clean
energy' project
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article620610.ece
21
May - The French energy company
EDF want nuclear guarantees from UK government before investing in a new
nuclear power station.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,,1779577,00.html
16
May - Bad press for the five biggest polluters in UK , who produce more CO2
than all motorists combined apparently. The 'top' polluter exceeds Croatia...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,,1775689,00.html
The
following paper may also be of interest:
Shackley,
Simon and McLachlan, Carly (2006), 'Trade-offs in assessing differentenergy
futures: a regional multi-criteria assessment of the role of carbondioxide
capture and storage'. Environmental Science and Policy, 9 (4), 376-391.