Atiqah Mokhtar Published on Tue, Jul 13, 2021
Sembcorp Industries (Sembcorp), through its UK subsidiary Sembcorp Energy UK (SEUK), has announced a collaboration agreement with Zero Degrees Whitetail Development to explore the development the of UK’s first net zero emissions station.
Zero Degrees Whitetail Development is the UK subsidiary of US innovation firm 8 Rivers Capital.
The station will be located at SEUK’s Wilton International site on Teesside. Named Whitetail Clean Energy (Whitetail), the project is expected to produce about 300 megawatts (MW) of clean, efficient, low-cost electricity, with potential expansion options in the future.
The Wilton International site in northeast England offers port and pipeline access, enabling Whitetail’s captured carbon dioxide to be transported to UK sequestration sites to be permanently stored in geological formations under the North Sea.
The development of the station will be subject to UK regulatory support.
The Whitetail facility is expected to harness the Allam-Fetvedt Cycle (AFC), a new type of power cycle pioneered by 8 Rivers Capital and NET Power, a clean energy technology company in the United States.
The process combusts natural gas with oxygen, rather than air, and uses supercritical carbon dioxide (CO2) as a working fluid to drive a turbine instead of steam. As a result, all air emissions, including traditional pollutants and CO2, are eliminated and pipeline-quality CO2 is produced so that it can be captured and stored offshore, making Whitetail a net zero emissions plant.
Sembcorp has committed to halve its GHG emissions by 2030 and deliver net zero emissions by 2050.
Shares in Sembcorp Industries closed down 2 cents or 0.94% lower at $2.11 on July 12.