The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero has given approval for plans to build a net-zero power station on Teesside.

Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power), a joint venture between BP and Equinor, aims to be one of the world’s first commercial scale gas-fired power stations with carbon capture whilst generating up to 860MW of electricity.

Consent was granted following a joint application between NZT Power and the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP). The NEP project includes a CO2 gathering network on Teesside to transport captured CO2 from industrial emitters; a CO2 gathering/booster station to receive the captured CO2 from the gathering network and from NZT Power; and the onshore section of a CO2 transport pipeline for the onward transport of up to two million tonnes of CO2 per year to storage in subsea sites in the North Sea.

Ian Hunter, MD, NZT Power, said: “The granting of a Development Consent Order is an important step towards the development of the UK’s first full-scale integrated power and carbon capture project. We thank the planning inspectorate and the Secretary of State for their work during this process and look forward to taking the project forward to a planned final investment decision in September 2024 or before”.

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