Alstom welcomes C02 sense report

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Alstom, which employs around 6,500 people across the UK, has welcomed todays publication of a report by CO2 Sense into the benefits of creating a carbon capture and storage (CCS) cluster in Yorkshire and Humberside.

Alstom, which is a partner in the White Rose CCS Project at Drax Power Station in Selby, backs the report and its conclusions that a cluster will deliver a major boost in a number of different areas, including:

The UK economy by delivering £1.3bn of investment and 4,000 skilled jobs;
Yorkshire and Humberside, where the areas economic output would increase by an estimated 0.8%, attracting as much as £11bn in foreign investment and a further 11,000 jobs;
A Yorkshire and Humberside CCS cluster has the potential to cut UK carbon emissions by up to 19% and to transform one of the UKs highest emitting regions into one of the cleanest.

Steve Burgin, Alstom UK President, said: Carbon capture and storage offers the UK the potential to develop what the Prime Minister referred to as new industries in his speech only last week.

This report shows the enormous impact that a CCS cluster in Yorkshire and Humberside could have almost £350m of investment and 2,600 people working on the scheme at the height of construction for the White Rose project alone.

Combine that with our existing investments in green generation through onshore and offshore wind, and emerging technologies such as wave and tidal power, and its clear that Alstom is already playing an important part in bringing new jobs and investment to the UK.

The White Rose CCS Project plans to develop a 426MW oxyfuel CCS demonstration project at the Drax coal-fired power station in Selby. The partners Alstom, BOC and Drax are seeking funding from the NER 300 programme in Europe.

It is estimated that, when built, the project will capture around 90% of CO2 emissions which would then be transported through National Grids proposed pipeline to be stored under the North Sea.