Notice

DN40 3DZ, VPI Immingham LLP: environmental permit application advertisement – EPR/BJ80221IZ/V014

Updated 14 March 2024

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Details of the application

The Environment Agency has received an application to vary an environmental permit under the Environmental Permitting (England and Wales) Regulations 2016 involving substantial change to a permit from VPI Immingham LLP

Application number

EPR/BJ8022IZ/V014

Regulated facility type

This variation is to authorise the retrofit two trains of Post-Combustion Carbon Capture (PCC) plants treating the flue gas emitted from the installation’s existing two gas turbines (GT1 & GT2) and the two auxiliary boilers (AB1 & AB2), removing carbon dioxide (CO2) for subsequent compression and storage.

It falls under the following Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) Schedule 1 listed activity description:

Section 6.10 Part A(1)(a) - Capture of carbon dioxide streams from an installation for the purposes of geological storage

The existing permit comprises two Large Combustion Plant (LCP) (LCPs188 and 415), which fall under the following IED Schedule 1 listed activity description:

Section 1.1 Part A(1)(a) - Burning any fuel in an appliance with a rated thermal input of 50 or more megawatts

This variation is to retrofit the PCC to LCP188, which comprises GT1, GT2, AB1 and AB2.

Regulated facility address

Immingham CHP Power Plant
Rosper Road
North Lincolnshire
DN40 3DZ

The application contains a description of how the proposed change(s) may affect:

  • the installation
  • the materials, substances and energy it will use and generate
  • the conditions of its site
  • the source, nature and quantity of its foreseeable emissions and their significant effects on the environment
  • the proposed techniques for preventing, reducing, and monitoring its emissions and preventing and recovering waste
  • and an outline of the main alternatives, if any, considered

How to view and comment on the application

If you have any comments on the application send these by 22 March 2024.

You can comment:

Online: view and comment on the application using Citizen Space

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