Primary CCUS Area: Power

VPI

VPI Immingham is a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant near Immingham, on the South Bank of the river Humber and close to Immingham port.
It is one of the largest CHP plants in Europe, capable of generating 1,240 megawatts – about 2.5% of UK peak electricity demand and up to 930 tonnes of steam per hour, which is used by nearby oil refineries to turn crude oil into products such as gasoline.
VPI Immingham, along with its partners Uniper and Phillip 66, is part of Humber Zero: a CCS project to remove over 40 MT/CO2 every year by 2040 from the wider Humber region. Humber Zero integrates CCS technology and hydrogen production into VPI and its neighbouring, co-dependent industries to help create a low carbon future for the Humber.

Uniper UK

Uniper is an international energy company, has around 7000 employees, and operates in more than 40 countries. The company plans for its 22.5 GW of installed power-generating capacity in Europe to be carbon-neutral by 2035. In the UK, Uniper owns and operates a flexible generation portfolio of seven power stations, a fast-cycle gas storage facility and two high pressure gas pipelines, from Theddlethorpe to Killingholme and from Blyborough to Cottam, in the north east. We also have significant long-term regasification capacity at the Grain LNG terminal in Kent, to convert LNG back to natural gas.
As a pioneer in the field of hydrogen, Uniper has set itself the target of operating worldwide along the entire value chain in the future and implementing projects that will make hydrogen the mainstay of the future energy supply. It was one of the first to implement power-to-gas technology – using wind power to produce hydrogen and feed it into the gas grid – with its plant in Falkenhagen, Germany, built in 2013. Uniper is currently supporting around 20 hydrogen projects, at various stages of development, from initial concept to completed projects. These include its Falkenhagen plant, potential production facilities at Maasvlakte in the Netherlands, plans for a German national hub for hydrogen in Wilhelmshaven, and for a hydrogen production hub in the Humber, UK. We see CCUS as complementary to our strategy, where it provides a potential future solution for decarbonising our power plants, and enables at scale production of blue hydrogen which is required to advance decarbonisation across sectors such as industry and transport as well as power production.

SSE Thermal

SSE Thermal is part of SSE plc and is on a mission to deliver the flexible energy needed today while powering the transition to net zero. Its flexible generation and gas storage sites play a crucial role in keeping the lights on across the UK and Ireland and the company is rising to the low-carbon challenge with its teams at the cutting-edge of vital technologies including hydrogen and carbon capture. The business has two power CCS projects in active development – Keadby 3 Carbon Capture in North Lincolnshire and Peterhead Carbon Capture in Aberdeenshire.

RWE Generation UK plc

RWE is the largest power producer in the UK, and a leading renewable generator supplying around 15% of the UK electricity with a diverse operational portfolio of onshore wind, offshore wind, Hydro, Biomass and gas. RWE currently operates approximately 7 GW of conventional, efficient gas-fired capacity in the UK. RWE believe this firm and flexible power remains an essential part of our country’s energy mix, now and in the future. We also recognise the need to decarbonise our gas fleet, and will ensure that our UK gas fleet operations transition to support the UK’s decarbonisation targets whilst continuing to maintain security of supply. We are therefore considering carbon capture projects to provide a decarbonised future for a number of our existing gas-fired power stations, and a new-build carbon-capture enabled power station.

MVV Environment

MVV Environment is the UK subsidiary of the German energy company MVV Umwelt, providing sustainable and efficient solutions for waste-fired energy generation to publicly and privately owned waste disposal companies, and to local authorities.
MVV entered the UK market in October 2008, bidding primarily for public sector waste contracts across the country. Now established as a responsible and growing group of companies in the UK, MVV operates three EfW and Biomass facilities treating over 650,000 tonnes of household residual waste and biomass a year.
Our largest project in the UK so far is the Devonport Energy from Waste Combined Heat and Power Facility in Plymouth. Since 2015, this modern and efficient facility has been using up to 265,000 tonnes of household, commercial and industrial residual waste per year to generate electricity and heat, notably for Her Majesty’s Naval Base Devonport in Plymouth. In Dundee, we have taken over the existing Baldovie Energy from Waste facility and have built a new, state of the art facility alongside it. From 2022, the two facilities will use up to 220,000 tonnes of municipal, commercial and industrial waste per year for the generation of usable energy.
We are currently developing a new Energy from Waste facility in Wisbech (Cambridgeshire) and others in separate locations in the UK.
Biomass is another key focus of our activities in the UK and demonstrates our responsibility towards society when it comes to promoting the use of renewable energy. Our biomass power facility at Ridham Dock, Kent, uses up to 195,000 tonnes of waste and non-recyclable wood per year to generate green electricity.

GE Vernova

GE Vernova is a planned, purpose-built global energy company that includes Power, Wind, and Electrification businesses and is supported by its accelerator businesses of Advanced Research, Consulting Services, and Financial Services. Building on over 130 years of experience tackling the world’s challenges, GE Vernova is uniquely positioned to help lead the energy transition by continuing to electrify the world while simultaneously working to decarbonize it. GE Vernova helps customers power economies and deliver electricity that is vital to health, safety, security, and improved quality of life. GE Vernova is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., with more than 80,000 employees across 100+ countries around the world.