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UK imposes carbon limits on new coal plants
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 23 - 04 - 2009


Britain announced today plans
to force all new coal plants in the country to test a pioneering
carbon-cutting technology, as it tries to sharpen efforts to meet
steep climate change targets, according to Reuters.
The move would make Britain the first country to require
coal plants to fit carbon capture and storage (CCS), still
unproven on a commercial scale.
Initially, new plants would have to apply CCS to only about
a quarter of power production rising to all output by 2025,
Energy and Climate Minister Ed Miliband told parliament.
The government would fund up to four CCS test plants --
including one previously announced -- said Miliband, on measures
which won support from analysts and some green groups.
"We need to signal a move away from the building of unabated
coal-fired power stations," he said.
CCS traps and then buries underground the carbon dioxide
which power plants produce as a result of burning fossil fuels,
and so cuts emissions of the main greenhouse gas blamed for
global warming.
Fossil fuels are expected to continue to provide the bulk of
energy for modern life worldwide for many years, explaining the
urgency to develop a low-carbon fix.
CCS adds about $1 billion to the cost of a power station.
Funding for the test plants would be raised either by a premium
on electricity produced or a payment per unit of carbon stored.
That would raise consumer power prices by about 2 percent by
2020. The first test should be up and running by 2015, Miliband
said, on proposals the government is now consulting on.


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