Net Zero Teesside Power
Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power) aims to be the first gas-fired power station with carbon capture and storage, and the hub of a decarbonised group of industries on Teesside who will share the CO2 transportation and storage infrastructure being developed by the Northern Endurance Partnership to serve the East Coast Cluster.
NZT Power, a joint venture between bp and Equinor, could produce up to 742 megawatts of flexible, dispatchable low-carbon power – equivalent to the average annual electricity requirements of more than 1 million UK homes. Up to 2 million tonnes of CO2 per year would be captured at the plant, and then transported and securely stored by the NEP in subsea storage sites beneath the North Sea. NZT Power could create and support more than 3,000 construction jobs and then require around 1,000 jobs annually during operations until 2050.
Start-up is expected in 2028, supporting the UK Government’s Clean Power 2030 ambition.
In March 2023, NZT Power was named on the Track 1 Project Negotiation List by The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) as part of Phase 2 of the Cluster Sequencing process for Carbon Capture Usage and Storage (CCUS).
In December 2024, NZT Power achieved financial close. Construction is expected to commence in mid-2025, with start-up expected in 2028.
NZT Power – how it works
The integrated facility consists of a H-class gas turbine combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) with amine-based post-combustion capture designed for rapid start-up, whilst capturing around 95% of emissions. CO2 is dried and compressed to safely enter the transportation and storage system. Low-carbon power will be exported to the nearby National Grid Tod Point facility.
Net Zero Teesside Power and Northern Endurance Partnership have confirmed contracts worth around £4bn with the following engineering, procurement, and construction contractors:
- Onshore Power, Capture and Compression – Technip Energies and GE Vernova consortium including Balfour Beatty as the construction partner and Shell as the technology licensor
- Onshore CO2 gathering system and gas connection – Costain
- Linepipe – Onshore and Offshore – Marubeni-Itochu Tubulars Europe Plc with Liberty Steel Hartlepool, Corinth Pipeworks and Equans as the nominated pipe-mills
- Offshore Pipeline, Landfalls, Onshore Outlet Facilities and Water Outfall – Saipem
- Offshore Subsea Injection System – TechnipFMC
- Power and Communications Cable – Alcatel Submarine Networks
- Offshore Systems Engineering – Genesis
- Integrated Project Management Team – Wood
Are you a supplier interested in working with us?
NZT Power wants to engage with innovative, technology-led supply chain companies who share our ambition to make Teesside part of the UK’s first decarbonized industrial cluster, the East Coast Cluster.
