UK’s first net zero power plant to be built on Teesside

By Tom Lowe2021-07-14T09:19:00

Facility will capture all carbon emissions and store them under the North Sea.

Plans to build the UK’s first net zero power station in Teesside have been unveiled. The natural gas plant at the Wilton International industrial site is the latest in a string of major green power projects in the region.

It will capture all carbon emissions that it produces and then store them under the North Sea. Known as the the Whitetail Clean Energy project, it will be jointly developed by US clean energy firm 8 Rivers Capital and Middlesbrough’s Sembcorp Energy UK, which owns the site.

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