Welcome to ScottishPower's Carbon Capture and Storage Vision
Out of the laboratory and into reality ...
All power stations that burn fossil fuels to create energy currently emit CO2 straight into the atmosphere. We at ScottishPower know we have to act fast to reduce these emissions if we are going to tackle climate change.
Carbon Capture and Storage, often referred to as CCS for short, is a new technology that will enable us to trap almost all of the CO2 from our power stations, turn it into a liquid and transport and store it safely in porous rock deep under the sea bed.
There has been extensive laboratory research and small-scale tests on the individual parts of the Carbon Capture and Storage chain, but what no one has done yet is to join the chain together at a scale sufficient to capture the emissions from an existing coal power plant.
We think we can and that's why we're investing millions to move CCS out of the laboratory and into reality at our power station at Longannet in Scotland. We hope that by 2014 the electricity it produces to heat and light homes across the UK will come from a power source that's about as clean as it can be.
Take a look through the site to find out more ...
"If the UK Government wishes to demonstrate the (CCS) technology on conventional power plants, then it is only sensible to use an existing station such as Longannet in Scotland, rather than building a new one"
WWF Reaction to DECC Coal Announcement 23rd April 2009 
