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UK Energy and Climate Change Minister Mike O’Brien has granted consent for ...

05/02/2009

UK Energy and Climate Change Minister Mike O’Brien has granted consent for three new power stations capable of providing approximately 4mn homes with electricity to be constructed at Pembroke, King’s Lynn and Hatfield. The new gas-fired power stations will produce around 4 GW of power (2,000 MW - Pembroke, 900 MW - Hatfield, 1,020 MW - King’s Lynn) and will help to secure the future supply of energy for British households. Each power station agreed during the planning process that they will have the necessary land available to retrofit a carbon capture and storage plant for future use. Consent was also given to build a second phase at Hatfield consisting of an integrated coal gasification combined cycle power station, which will use coal to produce hydrogen to fuel the station.

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Region: UK

Keywords: Electricity - Utilities - gas

Subjects: Planning and Design, Transformation [Energy processing] (Conversion), Electricity generation, Electricity from fuel combustion, Combined heat and power generation, Heat generation, Heat distribution, Storage, Transportation, Transmission and Distribution, Electricity, Hydrogen, Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle, Power stations, Land use, Coal gasification