A ground-breaking Cheshire facility designed to remove the equivalent carbon dioxide emissions of almost 200,000 cars a year from the atmosphere so it can be stores under the Irish Sea is poised to get the go ahead.
Cheshire West and Chester’s planning committee is recommended to rubber-stamp an application for a carbon capture facility (CCF) at the Protos energy hub near Ellesmere Port when it meets next week.
The plant is designed to capture almost all the carbon dioxide (CO2) from the flue gases which will be emitted by the adjacent Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) currently under construction.
If approved, it would be one of the first carbon capture plants associated with an ERF in the UK and would capture 380,000 tonnes of CO2 a year – roughly the equivalent emissions of 200,000 cars each year.
The captured CO2 at the site on Marsh Lane in Ince would then be exported to the HyNet Northwest CO2 Transport and Storage Facility via a spur pipeline, for long-term storage in depleted underwater gas fields in Liverpool Bay.
During the two-year construction period, the company said there would be 250 full time jobs supported, with seven full-time jobs created once it is operational.
The scheme is part of a much wider series of infrastructure developments in the area aimed at advancing greener energy solutions.
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