NPT’s Neil Hindle Speaks at Carbon Capture Event

Neil Hindle, Chief Innovation Officer at NPT, spoke at Counting the Carbon – Making Sure Carbon Capture Works, sponsored by UKSPF and hosted by Decerna. The Tees Valley event centred on an engaging exploration of carbon capture and its key role in achieving net zero with experts sharing insights, updates and innovations shaping the future of carbon capture technology. This included developing a net zero industrial cluster in Teesside to understand the global importance of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in carbon capture and progressing the journey towards a sustainable future.

Neil presented ‘Decarbonising Flight’ and discussed NPT’s REFNOVA® technology as a means to enable this through its product 2G ethanol, and its use in the AtJ pathway to SAF production. In line with the event, he particularly highlighted the co-product, biochar, as a natural carbon removal product, that can deliver an immediate decarbonisation impact through sequestration and enable a negative CO₂ emissions profile. This included the uses of biochar, its impact and benefits.

This event was timely given the announcement of two carbon capture and storage projects in Teesside. Northern Endurance Partnership (NEP) and the Net Zero Teesside Power (NZT Power) projects will now progress to execution phase and are viewed as two of the UK’s first CCS infrastructure projects.

The NEP project is a CO2 transportation and storage provider for the East Coast Cluster, with construction due to start in mid-2025 and commercial operations set to begin in 2028. NZT Power, part of the East Coast Cluster, will be a natural gas-fired power plant with CCS, with a capacity of 742 MW and an ability to store up to 2 million mt/year. NEP has also been granted government approval to progress development engineering for the Humber Carbon Capture Pipeline [HCCP], the proposed onshore infrastructure project that would transport CO2 from future selected carbon capture projects in the Humber region. This CO2 storage project gives the opportunity for biogenic CO2 from REFNOVA®’s fermentation of sugar to ethanol to be stored in addition to the biochar, further increasing the amount of CO2 removed from the atmosphere by Nova Pangaea’s Technology.