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Scottish and Southern Energy and Mitsubishi cooperate on CCS
Projects / Policy, July 19 2010 (Carbon Capture Journal)
- Mitsubishi (Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd and Mitsubishi Power Systems Europe Ltd) and SSE (Scottish and Southern Energy plc) have entered into a strategic agreement to co-operate on low carbon energy developments.
The agreement will enable the partners to explore a range of technologies including offshore wind farms, advanced technology for smart electricity grids and low carbon vehicles, carbon capture and storage and high-efficiency power generation.
Mitsubishi and SSE are working together to become strategic partners in low carbon electricity production and management and in low carbon transport technology. They hope to establish joint development projects, ventures, investments and supply arrangements through this agreement.
SSE established a Centre of Engineering Excellence in Renewable Energy in partnership with the University of Strathclyde in 2009, with over 300 skilled professional jobs to be created by SSE over three years.
The agreement with Mitsubishi will build on this, and is expected to lead to up to 100 additional new, highly-skilled, engineering-based jobs being created at the Centre. Employment at the Centre is expected to grow further, as other suppliers of services and products related to offshore wind energy development and other partners join SSE and Mitsubishi in locating engineering-related jobs there. It is on course to reach around 1,000 jobs over the next five years, the company said.
Subject to the progress of the agreement, SSE and Mitsubishi intend to focus on, in the first instance, the delivery of renewable energy from offshore sites and the deployment of low carbon vehicles.
