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17.10.2011 18:25UK Falls Behind in CCS Developments
Since coal-fired power plants can provide up to 50 percent of the UK's electricity supply at certain peak times of the year, finding ways to reduce the CO2 emissions these plants generate is vital for jobs and the government's climate change goals, Trades Union Congress (TUC) said
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Britain must step up investment in clean coal or risk losing jobs and jeopardising its chances to lead in the development of carbon-capture and storage (CCS), a leading UK trade union body warned on Monday, as quoted by Reuters.
Since coal-fired power plants can provide up to 50 percent of the UK's electricity supply at certain peak times of the year, finding ways to reduce the CO2 emissions these plants generate is vital for jobs and the government's climate change goals, Trades Union Congress (TUC) said.
"Ministers say that the UK will have its first carbon capture plant operating in five years time, with another three in place by 2018, but his isn't soon enough," Brendan Barber, general secretary of TUC, said in a statement.
The cost of Iberdrola's Longannet CCS plant in Scotland is estimated at 1.2 billion pounds ($1.9 billion) and the technology added to Britain's second-largest coal-fired power plant was expected to start operating in 2014
Iberdrola will need at least 600 million pounds to proceed with the project, but only 400 million pounds have been committed, a source told Reuters earlier in the month.
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