The company, which runs a giant site in Ferrybridge and is currently in the process of building a new facility at Skelton Grange in Leeds, has published a new plan on how it intends to decarbonise its own operations and deliver carbon removals “at scale” to help the UK achieve its net zero targets. The plan states the introduction of carbon capture technology could allow its Ferrybridge and Skelton Grange plants to capture more than 800,000 tonnes of carbon per year.
This is an exciting UK-first project and would open new possibilities for our country’s decarbonisation aims. Bechtel was selected to support the feasibility work underpinning the concept. 'We have separately conducted a pre-feasibility study to identify the engineering necessary to lay a CO2 pipeline from Ferrybridge to either the Humber or Teesside for CO2 storage offshore.