Turner & Townsend appointed on Net Zero Teesside

T&T will look to project manage, reduce costs, and schedule risks during construction of the £833m scheme being built by Balfour Beatty.

Net Zero Teesside Power is a joint venture between BP and Equinor. NZT aims to become the world’s first gas-fired power station with carbon capture and storage.

NZT is enabled by Northern Endurance Partnership, the developer of the onshore and offshore infrastructure needed to transport CO2 from carbon capture projects across Teesside and the Humber, known collectively as the East Coast Cluster, to secure storage beneath the North Sea.

The post-combustion carbon capture system will be capable of holding up to 2m tonnes of CO2 per year, which will be compressed and fed into the offshore pipeline to be stored under the North Sea by NEP, which is a JV between BP, Equinor, and Total Energies.

T&T has been commissioned to work on the project for four years.

Construction of the power station is expected to start imminently and complete in 2028.

Once operational, NZT Power could produce up to 742MW of flexible, dispatchable low-carbon power, equivalent to the average annual electricity requirements of more than one million UK homes.

Alan Sinclair, managing director, energy and natural resources, UK at Turner & Townsend, said: “We’re proud to be trusted with the responsibility of delivering the highest standards of performance and assurance on one of the UK’s most ambitious decarbonisation projects.

“This appointment strengthens our portfolio in complex infrastructure delivery and supports the UK’s transition to net zero.”