EON plans for a £1bn Kent power station

Energy giant E.ON .UK plans to send in a full planning application next month for a new £1bn power station to be built in Kent.
The scheme involves two new 800MW megawatt units, which would replace the four existing units at Kingsnorth on the Hoo Peninsula. The old power station would be demolished. If the project gets the green light, the new units would start producing electricty by 2012.

Although the new station would be coal-fired, the aim is to fit the new units with special “scrubbing” kits to make them cleaner and more efficient and with the claimed ability to cut carbon emissions by up to 1.8 million tonnes a year.

[Contract Journal, 18 October 2006, p 4]