Research into reducing the carbon emissions from electricity generation is being carried out at one of our power plants.
Partnering with Siemens, we are developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and are building a pilot facility.
We will fit the CCS equipment, which will extract carbon dioxide from the gas created when coal is burned, to our Staudinger plant in Germany.
This technology is known as post-combustion capture process and it will become operational at our plant this summer.
There it will be tested to assess how well it works and how energy efficient it is.
Michael Suess, CEO of the fossil power generation division of Siemens Energy, said: "The results achieved and the operating performance of the pilot plant will serve as the basis for large-scale demonstration plants, which are scheduled to start operation in the middle of the next decade."
According to the Committee on Climate Change it will be essential to decarbonise the energy supply if we are to meet the target of cutting carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050.
We are bidding to build a CCS demonstration plant at Kingsnorth in Kent.
