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In the north of England about 450 engineers are toiling away to build a new large gas plant. It could be one of Britain’s last.
SSE’s 840-megawatt Keadby plant is the latest gas plant under construction in the UK. At the start of June a gas turbine weighing as much as an Airbus A-380 arrived on-site from Germany, keeping it on track to finish construction by 2022.
The UK has at least 10 gigawatts of new large-scale gas plants at various stages of planning, from Czech generator Energeticky a Prumyslovy Holding AS to Drax Plc. But the government has set the path to reducing emissions to net zero by 2050 and that means eliminating polluting fuels almost entirely as well as more than doubling the share of renewables.
Long seen as a crucial bridging fuel in the energy transition, gas can back up intermittent renewable electricity and replace dirtier coal that has all but disappeared from the UK’s power mix.