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Carbon Capture & Storage:Why we need a campaign
against Longannet
Mandy MeikleScotland Against New Coal
Scottish Climate Camp13 June 2009
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Longannet power station, in Fife, is Scotland’s largest coal-fired power
station
Peter Macdonald, http://flickr.com/search/?q=Longannet&l=cc&ct=0
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Owned & operated by Scottish Power, a subsidiary of Iberdrola
Installed capacity - 2,400 MW (4 x 600MW boilers)
2008 facts & figures
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Owned & operated by Scottish Power, a subsidiary of Iberdrola
Installed capacity - 2,400 MW (4 x 600MW boilers)
2008 facts & figures
2,496,000 tonnes of coal49,000 tonnes of Waste Derived Fuel13,000 tonnes of biomass
What goes in1:
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Owned & operated by Scottish Power, a subsidiary of Iberdrola
Installed capacity - 2,400 MW (4 x 600MW boilers)
2008 facts & figures
CO2 – 5,957,000 tonnesSO2 – 23,600 tonnesNOx – 14,100 tonnesdust – 390 tonnesHCl – 289 tonnes
2,496,000 tonnes of coal49,000 tonnes of Waste Derived Fuel13,000 tonnes of biomass
What comes out2:
What goes in1:
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Owned & operated by Scottish Power, a subsidiary of Iberdrola
Installed capacity - 2,400 MW (4 x 600MW boilers)
2008 facts & figures
288,000 tonnes fly ash was also produced, the majority of which was sold to industry or piped as a slurry to nearby land reclamation3.
2,496,000 tonnes of coal49,000 tonnes of Waste Derived Fuel13,000 tonnes of biomass
What comes out2:
What goes in1:
CO2 – 5,957,000 tonnesSO2 – 23,600 tonnesNOx – 14,100 tonnesdust – 390 tonnesHCl – 289 tonnes
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NOx: Longannet is fitted with 'Low-NOx' burners yet it still came tenth in the league of big NOx polluters1. Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) technology will be fitted at Longannet to continue beyond 2015 – til 2030
Sulphur: In 2008, flue gas desulphurisation equipment was installed to remove sulphur dioxide from the emissions of three of its four boilers. Scottish Power can now burn Scottish coal again2 – which means opencast coal
Longannet also burns sewage sludge, which is illegal3, but was allowed as part of an agreement which required Scottish Power to construct, and have in operation, a biomass plant by 2010. A 25 MW Longannet Biomass Power Station is now in planning4 but now it’s all about...
Pollution
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Carbon Capture & Storage
A demonstration of CCS began at Longannet on 29 May 2009
Longannet is one of 3 contenders left in the Government’s CCS competition
Even by 2014, Longannet would only capture CO2 from half of one boiler (300MW) – this is
too little too late
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What is Carbon Capture & Storage?There are 3 methods currently used in industry:
Pre-combustion: fossil fuel is burned & converted into synthetic gas (e.g. for fuel) and the CO2 is captured
Oxy-fuel combustion: similar but the fuel is burned in oxygen instead of air. Again, CO2 is removed from the fossil fuel by chemical processes
Post-combustion: CO2 is removed after combustion of the fossil fuel - this is the scheme that would be applied to conventional power plants
The technology is well understood but not at the same scale as required in a commercial
power station
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What’s the problem?UnprovenThis technology is totally unproven at the scales required. We are betting the climate that CCS will be made to work
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What’s the problem?UnprovenThis technology is totally unproven at the scales required. We are betting the climate that CCS will be made to work
CostCCS increases the fuel requirement of a coal-fired power plant by 25%. Storage and other system costs increase the costs of CCS by 30-60%1
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What’s the problem?UnprovenThis technology is totally unproven at the scales required. We are betting the climate that CCS will be made to work
CostCCS increases the fuel requirement of a coal-fired power plant by 25%. Storage and other system costs increase the costs of CCS by 30-60%1
Energy demandcaptured by amine scrubbers or quicklime requires heat to remove the captured CO2, which typically results in extra energy costs of 20-30% compared to plants with no capture2
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What’s the problem?UnprovenThis technology is totally unproven at the scales required. We are betting the climate that CCS will be made to work
CostCCS increases the fuel requirement of a coal-fired power plant by 25%. Storage and other system costs increase the costs of CCS by 30-60%1
Energy demandcaptured by amine scrubbers or quicklime requires heat to remove the captured CO2, which typically results in extra energy costs of 20-30% compared to plants with no capture2
Enhanced Oil Recoverymay act as a stimulus for CCS especially if developers believe that oil will remain at over $100 per barrel3
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There’s no Plan BNo debate over what we are doingIt’s a given that CCS is the way forward. We will not stop burning coal so CCS “must be made to work”. So why here? We have renewable resources & should be experimenting with localisation. Why not set up a massive aid programme to develop CCS where it’s needed?
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There’s no Plan BNo debate over what we are doingIt’s a given that CCS is the way forward. We will not stop burning coal so CCS “must be made to work”. So why here? We have renewable resources & should be experimenting with localisation. Why not set up a massive aid programme to develop CCS where it’s needed?
NGOs making supportive statementsNew-builds versus retrofit: WWF1 reports that future CCS emissions reductions at Longannet are equivalent to turning off 2 coal-fired power stations for a year whereas new-builds could increase emissions by equivalent to an extra 4.5 coal-fired power stations a year
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There’s no Plan BNo debate over what we are doingIt’s a given that CCS is the way forward. We will not stop burning coal so CCS “must be made to work”. So why here? We have renewable resources & should be experimenting with localisation. Why not set up a massive aid programme to develop CCS where it’s needed?
NGOs making supportive statementsNew-builds versus retrofit: WWF1 reports that future CCS emissions reductions at Longannet are equivalent to turning off 2 coal-fired power stations for a year whereas new-builds could increase emissions by equivalent to an extra 4.5 coal-fired power stations a year
Opportunities for the North SeaA report out last month said the North Sea has the capacity to store all of Europe's CO2 for 200 years!
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SANC launched on 1 October 2008
SANC formed as part of the No New Coal movement
SANC was to be the ‘spiky’ end of a coalition of Scottish NGOs but we are totally opposed to
CCS
SANC has met with Scottish Power twice & are meeting with local MP on 10 July
SANC wants to start a public debate on why CCS is not the answer
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If the demonstration works, will you commit to fitting CCS to all 4 boilers?
If so, when?
If not, why not?
If the demonstration does not work, will you commit to closing Longannet immediately?
We want Scottish Power to answer these questions:
We need answers to these questions to get the debate going
Meanwhile, we need a demonstration of our own...that not everyone is falling for the CCS myth
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Scotland Against New Coal
http://sancnews.wordpress.com