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SE Generation, a generation business
of Scottish & Southern Energy, has
invested £240m to install flue gas
desulphurisation (FGD) equipment at its
2,000MW Fiddler’s Ferry power station in
Cheshire, UK. It has also done the same
for half of the capacity at its 2,000MW
Ferrybridge power station in South
Yorkshire.
The plant can now operate in line with
the limits on sulphur-dioxide emissions
contained in the Large Combustion Plan
Directive (LCPD).
The FGD equipment means the stations
can use higher-sulphur coal mined in the
UK. As a result, SSE has entered into an
agreement with UK Coal for 3.5 million
tonnes of deep and surface-mined coal
from UK. SSE's plant at Slough has a
current generating capacity of 80MW and
is the UK's largest dedicated biomass
facility.
Cutting back emissions by using biomass
is also at the core of another new project
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Emissions control - at the
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The installation of FGD equipment at the 2,000MW Fiddler’s Ferry power station in
Cheshire and half of the capacity at the 2,000MW Ferrybridge power station in South
Yorkshire, means they meet EU limits on sulphur-dioxide emissions, WIP reports.
Fiddler’s Ferry.
initiated by SSE Generation. It has
received the go-ahead from the UK
Government to develop a £250 million
($400 million) biomass and waste project
within its Ferrybridge coal-powered
station in West Yorkshire, UK. The plant
will generate 108 MW of electricity and
will provide heat to SSE’s existing
Ferrybridge power station. The facility
will use a range of feedstock, including
biomass, waste-derived
fuels and waste wood to
Ferrybridge.
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generate heat and electricity. Scottish &
Southern plans to complete the plant in
early 2015.
The company says that the construction
of the new plant is not designed to
replace the 1000 MW of capacity of the
existing power station at Ferrybridge,
which is due to close in 2015 due to the
introduction of the Large Combustion
Plant Directive (LCPD), which aims to
reduce the emissions from combustion
plants. SSE introduced new technologies,
which have reduced emissions from two of
its existing units, to meet LCPD standards
but this is not possible for the existing
plant in Ferrybridge.
Ferrybridge C power station is capable
of co-firing biomass and is currently being
fitted with Flue Gas Desulphurisation
(FGD) plant a key technology used to
remove SO2 from the exhaust flue gases
of fossil-fuel power plants [see diagram
right, courtesy of Siemens].
SSE is Scotland’s third largest FT-SE 100
company, and has interests in the
generation, transmission, distribution and
supply of electricity.
WIP
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