The company behind consented plans for a 470MW gas-fired power station on the South Humber Bank has applied to extend the time limit for starting construction.
Time is ticking on C.Gen’s £250 million proposal for a site at North Killingholme.
Granted consent in September 2014, permission expires on October 1 next year.
Now C.Gen the company behind it, wants to secure a five year extension, lodging an application with the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
It said the timescale was “considered to be necessary to enable the construction and operation of the project” while also seeking to update carbon capture and storage elements.
Envisaged to create 140 full time jobs and hundreds more in construction, and had initially been lined up to enter the 2017 Capacity Market Auction, pre-qualifying for the 'four year ahead' 2021 round.
Winning such contracts to deliver electricity to the grid play a huge part in project viability.
C.Gen, a sister company to neighbouring Humber Sea Terminal owner C.Ro Ports - part of Belgian entity CLdN - subsequently bought Centrica’s former North Killingholme power station in 2016, knocking it down to provide access to the new site, with potential to "develop new energy projects". It also brought connections to the high pressure grid gas network and electrical grid.
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Off Chase Hill Road, it sits close to Uniper’s power station, formerly known as E.on, close to the National Grid substation, with offshore wind developer Orsted’s Hornsea One and Two wind farm onshore substations connecting to the grid there too.
Uniper has been appointed as engineer for the project, providing technical project development support, with Siemens selected as preferred engineering, procurement and construction contractor. It is currently working with SSE Thermal on Keadby Two - where the world's most efficient turbine is being installed.
It comes as at South Killingholme, VPI Immingham has just been granted consent to add a further 299MW of power generating capacity.