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Want to take the big decisions about the nation’s energy future – specifically about the choices we face when it comes to mov- ing to a secure, low carbon economy? A new on-line simulation tool, My2050, from the Department of Energy and Climate Change allows you to explore, but not take decisions on, exactly these matters.


Whether you want to build more


nuclear power stations, move everyone to electric cars, or put solar panels on every roof, the choice is yours as long as you can hit the 2050 target to reduce carbon emis- sions by 80% while keeping the lights on. In addition to launching the My2050 simulation, the government has also


updated its more technical counterpart, the 2050 Calculator, which gives a more detailed look at the UK’s energy and emis- sions system based on the physical and technical limits of different technologies across the supply and demand side. Visit my2050.decc.gov.uk to access the


tool.


CCGT power stations for Derbyshire and Wales


Energy Minister Charles Hendry has given the go-ahead for two new gas-fired power plants. RWE npower plans to construct a new gas-fired power plant at Willington, South Derbyshire. The plans are for up to four combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) generating units, each around 500MWin capacity, and four open cycle gas turbine (OCGT) generating units with a combined capacity of 400 MW – bringing a total capacity of up to 2.4GW. The plant would take about three years to construct, and will be located on the site of the former W


Willington A and B power stations which closed in the 1990s. Meanwhile, Scottish and Southern


Energy (SSE) plans to build an 870 MW gas-fired power station near Port Talbot, Wales. The Abernedd CCGT plant will be built at the Baglan Bay Energy Park, on the former site of a chemicals facility. Hendry spoke of the ‘major opportunity


in the long term for gas power stations like [these] to be fitted with abatement technology.’ The stations will be built ‘car- bon capture-ready’, so that eventually car- bon dioxide emissions from the plant


could be captured and transported for storage offshore. The consents bring the total new capac-


ity consented by the government since May last year to 5,456MW. Hendry also gave SSE consent to


retrofit its coal-plant in Fiddler’s Ferry, Warrington, with a selective catalytic reduction plant to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides. The move will allow the plant to comply with new limit values for emissions of nitrogen oxides set under the EU Industrial Emissions Directive.


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