E.ON UK Supports Government's Carbon Capture and Storage Project

E.ON UK, one of the country's arch activity generators, and business activity supplier, has today accepted its abutment for the Government's CCS activity and its ambition to crop allotment in the competition.

-- The aggregation is one of a drop of UK companies to accept developed both pre- and post-combustion projects, a lot of conspicuously through its affairs for carbon abduction accessible supercritical coal-fired units at Kingsnorth in Kent. And are appreciative to be one of the UKs better business gas supplier.

We accordingly abutment the Government's accommodation and are currently evaluating options for entering a column agitation activity or projects into the competition. Dr Paul Golby, Chief Executive of E.ON UK, said: "We recognise that the Government has bare time to ascertain its action objectives and appraise the accessible technology options adjoin these.

"Making the technology best now will accredit developers to focus accomplishment and amount on projects which will best accommodated those action goals and abstain added amount on those it does not.

"We accept that the best of column agitation affirmation technology adapted to a supercritical atramentous bulb is absolutely rational accustomed that the Government has set, as a key action aim, the cold of demonstrating technology that can be retrofitted in China and added countries to their new and approaching coal-fired plant.

"We accordingly abutment the Government's accommodation and are currently evaluating options for entering a column agitation activity or projects into the competition."

The aggregation which offers a advanced ambit of business activity services will adjudge on how best to access the antagonism already there is added description of the rules next month.

E.ON is aswell one of the supporters of the FutureGen activity in the US and is affianced in added analysis projects in Europe and in Canada. The aggregation is aswell continuing to investigate 'oxyfuel' battlefront as one adjustment for apple-pie atramentous bearing at its technology centre in Nottinghamshire.

The Government is currently because an appliance from E.ON to body two 800MW supercritical coal-fired units at its absolute Kingsnorth ability base in Kent.

E.ON is one of the arch blooming generators in the UK, and arch business electricity supplier with 21 wind farms amid from Cornwall to Northern Ireland. We aswell bake biomass actual alloyed with atramentous in two of our ability stations and are currently architecture the UK's better committed biomass ability base at Lockerbie. Combined, our renewable portfolio generates abundant blooming activity to ability the homes in a city-limits the admeasurement of Manchester.

Our ambition is to cut the carbon appear by anniversary kW of electricity we accomplish by 10% amid 2005-2012, accepting already bargain it by 20% back 1990.

Major business gas supplier E.ON, aswell plan to absorb £1bn on new renewables in the next 5 years, including new onshore and adopted wind, new biomass and beachcomber and flat power.