LONDON, June 4 (Reuters) - Britain's Drax Group and
U.S. engineering company Bechtel have teamed up to identify
opportunities to build new bioenergy with carbon capture and
storage (BECCS) power plants around the world, they said on
Friday.
BECCS is a negative emissions technology which extracts
bioenergy from biomass and then captures and stores the carbon
dioxide but is not yet at commercial scale.
Drax has a pilot BECCS project at its power station in
Yorkshire.
"Negative emissions technologies such as BECCS are crucial
in tackling the global climate crisis and at Drax we’re planning
to retrofit this to our UK power station, demonstrating global
climate leadership in the transformation of a former coal-fired
power station," said Jason Shipstone, Drax Group's Chief
Innovation Officer.
Bechtel said it will study potential regions for new BECCS
plants, including North America and western Europe, and how to
optimise the design of BECCS plants to maximise efficiency and
cost.
(Reporting by Nina Chestney)
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