In December 2024, the Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) announced financial close and the start of the execution phase of the Teesside CO2 transportation and storage infrastructure project. The Teesside facility represents the first phase of The East Coast Cluster (ECC), a multibillion-pound investment representing a major development for carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Europe and globally. In this paper, the authors review lessons drawn from the many firsts on this project.
The ECC: Linking Emitters to Subsurface Storage
From 2015, a new CCS project emerged after two previous attempts at CCS in the UK were unsuccessful (detailed in the complete paper), centered on the east coast of the UK. The Teesside Collective was set up by energy-intensive companies working together to build a CCS‑equipped industrial zone.
The Clean Gas Project focused on gas-fired power with CCS to displace retiring coal-power generation to further decarbonize the UK electricity grid. A five-train, approximately 3.4‑GW system with 10-mtpa CO2-storage capacity had been developed and costed.
