The Keadby 3 Carbon Capture Power Station has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. 

SSE Thermal and Equinor have been developing Keadby 3, which could become the UK’s first power station equipped with carbon capture technology by the mid-2020s.

With an electrical output of up to 910MW, Keadby 3 Carbon Capture Power Station will use natural gas as its fuel and will be fitted with a carbon capture plant to remove the CO2 from its emissions.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) could capture over 90 per cent of the carbon dioxide emissions produced from the use of fossil fuels in electricity generation and industrial processes, preventing the carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere.

The CCS chain consists of three parts; capturing the carbon dioxide, transporting the carbon dioxide, and securely storing the carbon dioxide emissions underground, in depleted oil and gas fields or deep saline aquifer formations.

Keadby 3 will connect to the shared infrastructure being developed by the East Coast Cluster to transport the captured CO2 and store it safely offshore. The East Coast Cluster is a collaboration between Zero Carbon Humber, Net Zero Teesside and Northern Endurance Partnership.

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