Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has been awarded an £833 million contract by Technip Energies to act as the construction partner for Net Zero Teesside Power, an onshore Power, Capture and Compression project that is poised to be the world’s first gas-fired power station with carbon capture and storage.
Balfour Beatty will work alongside Technip Energies and GE Vernova, with the support of technology partner Shell Catalysts & Technologies, to construct the large-scale combined cycle gas-powered generation plant for Net Zero Teesside Power, a joint venture of bp and Equinor.
The company will also build the post combustion carbon capture system, which is expected to capture up to two million tonnes of CO2 per year. The CO2 will be compressed and fed directly into an offshore pipeline to be stored under the North Sea by the Northern Endurance Partnership, a joint venture of bp, Equinor and Total Energies.
Balfour Beatty will bring its major civil engineering, ground engineering and power transmission and distribution expertise together with its industrial mechanical and electrical heritage to the project. It is expected that the new power station will produce up to 742 MWe of dispatchable low-carbon power.
The contract award follows the UK government’s announcement in October 2024 of a £21.7 billion pledge for projects to capture and store carbon emissions from energy, industry and hydrogen production, with Net Zero Teesside Power and the Northern Endurance Partnership subsequently achieving final investment decisions in December 2024.
