Dr Paul Golby, CEO of E.ON UK, said: We believe that the choice of post combustion demonstration technology fitted to a supercritical coal plant is entirely rational given that the government has set, as a key policy aim, the objective of demonstrating technology that can be retrofitted in China and other countries to their new and future coal-fired plants.
We therefore support the government’s decision and are currently evaluating options for entering a post combustion project or projects into the competition.
The government is currently considering an application from E.ON to build two 800MW supercritical coal-fired units at its existing Kingsnorth power station in Kent. The company is investigating ‘oxyfuel’ firing as one method for clean coal generation at its technology center in Nottinghamshire.
