英国将会落成第一个「零排放」的天然气发电站，该发电站将会在Teesside落成，因为该地区为英国其中一个主要的工业和制造业市镇。预期整个项目可以提供2000个建造业相关职位，落成后提供200个营运职位。

发电站计划于2012年起草，并已投入约600万英镑。发电站会将天然气和氧气燃烧产生能量而非空气，同时产生的污染物和二氧化碳将会收集、液化，最后储在北海海底。预期2025年落成后可以提供 300 megawatts per hour，即大约一个香港竹篙湾发电厂的电量。

Teesside chosen for UK's first net zero emissions power plant

Plans for the first power station in the UK with net zero emissions have been announced.

The natural gas plant at Wilton International on Teesside will capture and store carbon emissions offshore.

Middlesbrough's Sembcorp Energy UK and US clean energy firm 8 Rivers Capital, who are behind the project, said it could create up to 2,000 jobs during construction and 200 during operation.

Energy Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan said it was a "real game-changer".

It was a "significant step forward in the UK's fight against climate change" and supported efforts to "revitalise this key industrial heartland", she said.

'Ideal location'

The Whitetail Clean Energy project will use a process which combusts natural gas with oxygen, rather than air, and uses carbon dioxide in a fluid state, instead of steam, to drive turbines.

A spokesman for the project said the process will eliminate all air emissions, including traditional pollutants and carbon dioxide, which will be captured and stored under the North Sea.

He said if given regulatory approval, the facility could produce about 300 megawatts of electricity per hour and be in operation by 2025.

The UK government has put £6m into the project since 2012.

Stockton North's Labour MP Alex Cunningham said Teesside was the "ideal location for a decarbonisation cluster", but it was "critical" the resulting jobs were well paid and open to local workers.

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