Net Zero Teesside Power

The Net Zero Teesside carbon capture project (often referred to through its anchor development Net Zero Teesside Power) is a major UK industrial decarbonisation initiative in Teesside, northeast England that combines low-carbon power generation with carbon capture and storage. It will build a combined-cycle gas turbine electricity station integrated with a post-combustion CO₂ capture plant that captures emissions from power production and nearby industrial sources for transport and permanent storage in offshore North Sea reservoirs via the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) system. The power facility is designed to produce up to 860 MW of low-carbon electricity while capturing up to about 2 million tonnes of CO₂ per year. The captured CO₂ is compressed on site, routed into an industrial CO₂ gathering network, and then transported through onshore pipeline infrastructure to subsea storage formations beneath the southern North Sea. A consortium led by bp, Equinor, Shell, Eni, and TotalEnergies is developing the project, with key engineering, construction, and capture equipment contracts awarded to partners such as Technip Energies and Balfour Beatty. Construction is underway with commercial operations planned from around 2028, making this one of the UK’s first commercial-scale carbon capture installations paired with flexible gas generation.