Low carbon power station announced
Updated on 09 August 2007
An energy giant has signed a deal to build a new power station with the aim of investing in low carbon generation, it was announced.
RWE npower said Alstom will build the combined cycle gas turbine station in Pembroke, west Wales.
Around £800 million will be invested in the project and construction work will start next year, subject to consent.
The company also announced a £60 million upgrade at its power station in Didcot to improve efficiency.
RWE npower chief executive Andrew Duff said: "We will close our existing coal power stations at Didcot and Tilbury by 2015.
"These decisions, along with the £1.7 billion investments we have announced, will put us on track to reduce the amount of CO2 we emit per unit of power generated by around 33% by 2015 compared to 2000, and by 50% compared to 1990 levels.
"In the longer term, energy companies need to look at a whole range of CO2-reducing options including much larger-scale offshore wind, cleaner coal with the possibility of carbon capture and storage, further modern gas plant and potentially new nuclear power.
"In the meantime, the investments we've announced this year will make a vital contribution to meeting the country's energy needs as older coal and nuclear plant begin to close over the next decade. At the same time, they will dramatically reduce the intensity of our CO2 emissions."
RWE npower has also applied for consent for a third offshore wind farm at Gwynt-y-mor, off the coast of North Wales.
The new plant in Pembroke will have enough capacity to supply around three million homes, and would reduce average annual CO2 emissions by six to 10 million tonnes.
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