RWE, the UK's leading electricity producer, has announced plans to progress three new carbon capture projects to help decarbonise UK electricity. As part of the plan, RWE is preparing proposals for the deployment of capture technology at its Staythorpe power plant. The project would enable the long-term production of 1.7 gigawatts (GW) of decarbonised, safe and flexible energy by sequestering around 4 Mt/year of CO2 per year, the equivalent of taking 800,000 petrol cars off the road. As the operator of the UK's largest fleet of gas-fired power stations and a leading producer of renewable energy, RWE sees carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a viable solution to deliver decarbonised, reliable and dispatchable power generation, supporting the UK's target. decarbonisation of its energy system by 2035. As well as being crucial to the UK's long-term energy security, the three proposed CCS projects will play a key role in helping RWE achieve its own global ambition to be carbon neutral by 2040 – targets in line with the Paris Agreement. Tom Glover, UK Chairman of RWE, said: “To decarbonise the energy sector, support security of supply and enable large-scale industrial decarbonisation, it is important to develop clean gas projects. (Dan Churchera, Newark Advertiser) 

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