UK East Coast carbon capture cluster gets approved

Offshore staff

LONDON – The East Coast Cluster has been designated one of the UK’s first carbon capture, usage and storage clusters, according to bp, and could be deployed by the mid-2020s.

This will support planned low-carbon industry and power projects across northeast England, including Net Zero Teesside and Zero Carbon Humber.

Once operational, the cluster could transport and store almost 50% of all UK industrial cluster CO₂ emissions beneath the North Sea, equivalent to up to 27 MM metric tons/yr of CO₂ emissions by 2030.

The project aims to create and support an average of 25,000 jobs per year between 2023 and 2050 in industrial carbon capture, low-carbon hydrogen production, negative emissions power, and power with carbon capture.

The East Coast Cluster is enabled by the bp-led Northern Endurance Partnership: other partners are Eni, Equinor, National Grid, Shell, and TotalEnergies.

10/19/2021