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White-Rose-model-illustration-e1398699513615Europe's first CCS power station will be built in Britain, the European Commission announced today (8 July).

Three hundred million euro will be awarded to the White Rose Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project at Drax power station in Yorkshire. Once up and running, it will generate enough low carbon electricity to power 630,000 households and is expected to create around 4,000 jobs by 2020.

Labour MEP for Yorkshire and Humber, Linda McAvan, was instrumental in establishing the NER300 fund with cash generated from the sale of carbon permits as part of the EU's flagship Emissions Trading Scheme.

Ninety per cent of the C02 produced by the plant will be captured and pumped along 100 miles of pipeline to be permanently stored beneath the North Sea.

Linda McAvan MEP said: "Riding high on the back of the 'Grand Depart', Yorkshire has scored yet another European coup.

"I am delighted to see the EU is investing in the White Rose project. As well as the immediate jobs the CCS project would create, the potential to export this technology, once developed, could bring untold economic benefits to Yorkshire and the Humber.

"CCS technology is essential if we hope to meet ambitious climate action targets and reduce the amount of carbon being released into our atmosphere.

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"Yorkshire is the UK's most energy-intensive region making it ideally suited to the development of CCS with a cluster of large emitters of carbon and plenty of off-shore storage space."

1. Thirty two projects from across Europe applied for the NER300 funding. See here for more.

2. The UK government committed funding to the White Rose project in December 2013, undertaking a two-year Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) project. DECC's press release can be found here.

3. The House of Commons energy and climate change select committee recently published a report that criticised the government for wasting time in getting CCS projects off the ground, blaming "badly design bureaucratic policies". The UK government failed to match EU commitments to fund the Don Valley CCS project in 2012. Read the full report here.

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