Regional Business Information for Yorkshire
European funding victory for £165m power station
21st October 2009
By Ian Briggs - Editor, Yorkshire
PLANS for a £165m power station in Yorkshire, which will capture and store carbon and create thousands of jobs in the region, has taken a major step forward after being recommended for European funding.
Powerfuel, headed by former UK Coal boss Richard Budge, has beaten off competition from rival schemes from E ON at Kingsnorth, RWE at Tilbury and Scottish Power at Longannet for the project at its site in Hatfield, near Doncaster.
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Wonderful news. Carbon Capture and storage has the potential to be much bigger than North Sea Oil was and for much longer. A host of new technologies will develop from it and inward investment potential is huge.
John Thompson