Overview
- Contracts with the Low Carbon Contracts Company confirm final investment decisions, with construction due to begin shortly.
- The projects are expected to remove about 1.2 million tonnes of CO2 a year across cement and waste-to-energy operations.
- Officials say around 500 skilled clean‑energy jobs will be secured across North Wales and the North West.
- These are the first anchor schemes feeding the HyNet network, with captured CO2 to be transported to Eni’s permanent storage in Liverpool Bay.
- Initial operations are targeted around 2029, with Padeswood designed to capture roughly 95% of plant emissions, and the government citing £9.4 billion this Parliament within a broader ~£22 billion CCUS support pledge.